Our vision Standinghall is to create a diverse estate with good biodiversity and the ability to generate a sustainable income from forestry, farming, commercial letting and recreation.

Originally formed part of the neighbouring Paddockhurst Estate until 2017. Paddockhurst still belongs to our broader family, but in 2018 we began to run Standinghall independently of the main estate.

Stay with us in our recently renovated and beautifully furnished seventeenth century cottage, Coldharbour farmhouse, or from May to September, in our campsite run by Embers (Turners Hill site).

We are currently renovating a collection of barns from which we hope to be able to offer courses which focus on the environment, countryside skills and crafts and other learning and wellness activities.

The estate woodland management has been approved by the Forestry Commission. Our objective is to work towards a continuous cover forestry model, focusing on natural regeneration. The woods are home to a variety of birds including Goshawk, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker and Firecrests.

We have undertaken some thinning works already under licence from the FC. Including a clear fell of a Norway Spruce plantation which was supported through the Forestry Commission Tree Health Pilot grant scheme relating to Spruce Bark Beetle (Ips Typographus). The area is to be replanted with English Oak, Douglas Fir, Scots Pine and Wild Cherry. And a mixture of lower growing pollinators, Blackthorn, Hawthorn and Crabapple which will be planted along the roadside which forms our boundary.

Our fields are entered into the Mid-Tier Countryside Stewardship Scheme for low input grassland. This means no nitrogen can be used on the fields and no mechanical works such as cutting for silage or topping can take place between ……. To protect ground nesting birds and species-rich meadows, ancient woodlands and to enhance birdlife and butterflies.

Through grant funding we have just completed 2000m of stock fencing around the first area of farmland to be entered into Countryside Stewardship. This is low input grassland to be grazed by cattle.