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TitleSale particulars: The Orton Estate near Peterborough with Orton Hall and Park (comprising 3,313 acres in total) to be offered by auction by Humbert & Flint at the Mart, Tokenhouse Yard, London by order of the mortgagees
DescriptionIn Orton Longueville:
- 'The noble mansion' Orton Hall with stabling and the park , woods and plantations
- Park Cottage, 'a capital family residence on the confines of Orton Park' (currently let to Mr. Marcus V. English)
- Botolph Bridge Farm (currently let to Mr George Martin)
- The Gordon Arms Inn (currently let to Mr W J Baker and the People's Refreshment House Association Ltd)
- several pieces of arable, pasture, meadow and osier ground
- Orton Hall Farm and Top Lodge Farm (both let to Messrs J.N. and H.S. Scorer)
- Long Orton & Moggswell Farm (currently let to Mr Ambrose Martin)
- My Lady's Lodge Farm with riverside meadows and Orton Upper Lodge Farm with park (let to Mr. E. King)
- Orton Lodge Farm (let to Messrs. W. and E. J. Babb)
- Post Office, 27 cottages and garden land in Orton Longueville (tenants named)

In Orton Waterville:
- Cherry Orton Farm (currently let to John Samworth)
- two thatched cottages and 10 perches of land (let to Walter Bunyan, George C. Howe and Mr. J. A. Chapman)

In Chesterton:
- 'The Hall' or 'Manor Farm' (let to Thomas C. Ratcliffe J.P.) with three cottages and farmland
- 'Upper Lodge' or 'Hill Farm' (let to Robert Henry Cutmore)
- 1 cottage with smallholding and 11 cottages (tenants named)

In Haddon:
- Lodge Farm with Haddon Old Brick Yard (let to Frederick Rowell)
- Shark's Lodge Farm (on the Great North Road/Haddon Road) with land (let to Ernest J. Babb and George Martin)

Includes advowsons of Orton Longueville, Chesterton and Haddon
Date28 July 1915
CreatorNameHuntly Family, Humbert and Flint
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives

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F/0007Gordon; family; of Orton Hall; Marquesses of Huntly12th Century-Present
P/0051Gordon; Lord; Charles (1847-1937); 11th Marquess of Huntly; of Aboyne Castle and Orton Hall1847-1937
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