“Escape to the English Countryside with the Pitchford Estate.” Owned since 2016 by Rowena Colthurst and James Nason (the latter a tech sector lobbyist with a company called Inline Policy), “the thousand acre Pitchford Estate is…home to Pitchford Hall (Generals’ Quarters), Windy Mundy Farm, Stockbatch Granary and Tree House Barn, four holiday lets available…a country escape that we hope that you’ll love as much as we do.” Sounds great, but that ‘country escape’ appears to be routinely offered to the South Shropshire Hunt – a hunt with a CPW (Community Protection Warning) against it – who went on the estate in November 2024 and (as reported by Shropshire Monitors) illegally blocked up a badger sett and who were there again for their 2024 Boxing Day meet. Having spent so much time and money reconstructing the family seat, it would be unfortunate if the estate gained a reputation going forward as host to an unreconstructed hunt like the South Shropshire…
Pitchford Estate (Shrops)
Links to further information
- Shropshire Monitors: Pitchford Estate (Facebook, November 2024)
- Protect the Wild: South Shropshire terrierman fined for blocking a badger sett (February 2025)
- Shropshire Monitors: SSH Meeting at Hidden valley caravan park (Facebook, December 2024)
- Hunt Saboteurs Association: Another Week, Another Guilty Hunt Terrierman. (December 2o24)
- Protect the Wild: South Shropshire Hunt terrierman mows down man breaking his leg (November 2023)
- Shropshire Monitors: Six men from the Meynell and South Staffordshire Hunt have been charged (Facebook, April 2019)
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