Talk:Encombe House

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The Today section describes the present owner as only the sixth owner of the house in 1100 years. That sounds extraordinarily unlikely, unless the previous five were exceptionally long-lived. KJP1 (talk) 16:15, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That's clearly a mistake. Perhaps they meant the sixth family line to own it? But I can't find an alternative source to those stating this. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:56, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, it must mean something like that, but it's not saying that at present. I'll keep looking too. KJP1 (talk) 20:03, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you read the history section, it names only 4 'family' lines that have owned the estate previously:

948: Abbess of Shaftesbury / Shaftesbury Abbey
1552: Culliford family
1734: Pitt family
Unspecified date: Earls of Eldon

Whether this is correct, I am not able to say - my sources rather mysteriously have very little to say about the house. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 20:32, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This would make sense, if it read something like, "becoming only the sixth family to own the house in 1100 years." I have a vague memory it was owned by a fund manager in the early 2000s. This says it was sold in 2002 [1]. Which would fit with it being sold again in 2009 to the sixth family. Will continue digging. KJP1 (talk) 21:03, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, it means the sixth family. This [2] shows it was owned by merchant banker Charles McVeigh from 2002 to 2008; "Encombe Estate in Dorset is being sold for only the fifth time in its 1,100 year history." I'll amend. KJP1 (talk) 21:10, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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