A close-up
of Weston Manor. The tenure of the great landowning families, the
Earls of Abingdon and Berkshire, the Norreys and Berties, ended in
1918 when Richard Bertie was killed in Palestine four days before
the end of the First World War.
The manor
was renovated by several families during the 1920s and 1930s, and
was occupied during the Second World War when it was used by the BBC
as a dormitory for their staff.
The building
was converted into a hotel in the late 1940s, and since the mid 1980s
both the manor and its 13-acre grounds have been sympathetically restored.
Weston Manor continues to be a thriving country hotel.
