Cantley Hall

By the mid-19th century, he owned 5,700 acres (23 km2) in the West Riding (i.e. Cantley Hall estate), 7,400 in Cambridgeshire and 200 in Lincolnshire.

[8][9] He served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1858–59 and in 1893 his wife, a staunch Anglo-Catholic, was patron for the refurbishment of Cantley Church by Sir John Ninian Comper.

His only grandchild Rowlanda Frances Childers continued the tradition before finally selling the property in 1901 to Grassmoor Collieries.

In 1904 Cantley Hall and its residual 5,000 acres (2,000 ha)[11] was bought by the William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam.

After World War II, the Fitzwilliam family faced with quickly declining revenues from their land, started selling off parts of the estate, including Black Carr Plantation in 1950 to Oates Brothers Timber Merchants.