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We were delighted to welcome so many to our walk and talk tour of The Bryn y Pys Old Hall Site on Monday 10 August 2026. As we walked up The Millennium Meadow, Tim Rosselli, Tour Guide, welcomed everyone and explained how it used to be a main drive to the Hall...

In August 2025, 12 acres of woodland poplar were harvested for the timber trade along The Argoed. This was because many of the trees came down due to storm damage and others had reached maturity. The timber mainly went to Kronospan in Chirk who are a large...

Bryn y Pys Archive Documents relating to the young Princess Victoria go on display at Kensington Palace. We are delighted to help Dr Myles Campbell in his research into the early education received by Princess Victoria. The documents include letters between The...

Before municipal fire engines, The Bryn y Pys estate had its own fire engine. This photograph of it, by Geoff Charles, was taken here at The Stables in 1950. The gentlemen pictured  would have been the Auctioneer and the Estate Factor making the arrangements. It was...

1st September’s episode of From the Horsebox is a chat with a Master Fly Fishing Coach, Karl Humphries MBE. He has fished all over the world including the Welsh Dee. He has brought fishing to thousands of young people through his work for the ‘Get Hooked on Fishing’...

Erbistock Mill is a four storey corn mill and weir on The River Dee. It is believed to have existed on this site since the 11 century. The weir is 72 m long and was built to provide water to power the mill. The present mill dates from 1603 and the weir with it was re-...

Sustainability, rewilding and biodiversity are new buzzwords for environmental work which has always been done on the Bryn y Pys Estate. This area, photographed in 2018 and in 2023, shows how the newly planted trees of oak, birch and alder have grown in that time. Tim...

It was really good to talk to Smiley Edwards who has lived in Overton on Dee all his life, he runs the football team, plays in the bowls team and happened to be there as a youngster when the old Bryn y Pys Estate office was being cleared for its new role in the...

LISTEN TO OUR PODCAST WITH MIKE JONES, FROM THE STABLES TELLING US HOW ABOUT THE BRYN Y PYS GATES We are very pleased with the new Bryn y Pys park gates on the Argoed Lane which were made by Mike Jones who owns Mike Jones Blacksmiths near Ellesmere. The previous white...

Captain Sir William Peel V.C. K.C.B. actually won his Victoria Cross three times over in three separate acts of gallantry during the Crimea War. He was born on November 2 1824 at Great Stanhope Street, Mayfair. The Fourth child of Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel and...

As the corona virus became an imminent reality, it was no surprise that milk and eggs were among the basics that many families rushed to buy, said NFU president, Minette Batters. (Farmer’s Guardian 9 June 2020) And yet despite widespread emergency restrictions, social...

The need to publicise the high standards of British farming and food production to  the outside world has led Will Evans to enter the world of social media,writing regular columns for The Farmers ' Weekly and Guardian and appearing recently on 'Adam's Farm for the...

The Peel Mortuary Chapel and Cemetery in Overton on Dee The Sad Story is that Edmund Peel aged 24 bought Bryn y Pys in 1848, married Anna Maria Lethbridge in 1854 and she died in 1860. She was initially buried in Overton Church graveyard before the Bishop gave...

This interview began as an idea to learn the secrets of Garnet’s success as a fisherman as he is a legend on the river. However,  it turned out to be so much more. A rich vein of stories with knowledge and experience gained from growing up in a country village, Betley...

THERE IS A HUGE LEVEL OF INTEREST IN HOW THE FOOD WE EAT IS PRODUCED. There were hundreds of visitors to Asney Park Farm, Erbistock and The Home Farm,Overton on 10 June. Mike Done and Dave Everett estimated gate numbers of 200-300 through the day with all ages...

  Many of you locally, will remember Wynn working on the Estate properties for Sarah Rosselli. He always had a cheery word, a joke and sang a good tune. In those days there was The Estate Yard in Overton, (opposite the chemist) with the office building attached...

We are endeavouring to draw together all aspects of business, farming and recreation which happen on the estate and to connect people and the services offered. I have made a start in visiting and photographing and there is an awful lot to include! I would be grateful...

For my next news piece I would like to introduce Jamie Owen, an 18 year old from Carreg y Franc Farm and 2nd year student at Reaseheath College where she is on the Livestock Course. When I began trying to find my way around websites and social media accounts for The...

I so enjoyed going out to film this silaging, it was made all the more interesting because of the story behind it. The forage harvester was purchased from a farm near Aberystwyth and it was towed across Wales by tractor to be met at Oswestry. There was some work...