General Estates Company

Its current businesses include the provision of mobile home parks, and ownership and operation of toll bridges.

[1][2][3] The company's head office is located in Hythe in Hampshire.

[1][4] The company runs 21 mobile home parks in southern England.

[5] It also owns and operates toll bridges, including:[2] The origins of the company lie with the Hythe Ferry, a passenger ferry route that still crosses Southampton Water from a pier adjacent to the company's head office.

Many of the ferries used carried the name Hotspur as a consequence of the family connection.