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The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners Ltd in London 382 to be repaid on 24 May 1935. It was eventually repaid 1941 383 Notwithstanding this farming continued, only a month earlier Holt had rented Cuckoo Bush Farm to Miss Edith Scott for £40 pa 384 . During the Second World War the estate was partially requisitioned but Holt retained title to it, see below. His niece, Mrs B Clark from Canada, visited Lackham in 1991 and erected the monument situated to the west of the house, between the House and the Back Drive. The elements inscribed on the monument - plants, a camera and horses - represent some of Major Holt’s wide interests and was purposely sited on a minor ley line said to run from St Cyriac’s Church to Chippenham 385 After the outbreak of the Second World War the House, cottages and gardens were requisitioned and so Holt was living at Lanhill in 1940 386 . He received compensation from the War Department of £300 pa plus £75pa for the upkeep of the gardens. When the Butler’s cottage was derequisitioned the amount was reduced by £26 pa. The Army didn’t take control of all the estate, and maps held by Wiltshire College from the period indicate that the farms remained 382 On 24 November 1934 Thrings papers 383 6 th March 1941 statutory receipt in Thrings papers 384 Agreement between Capt. HP Holt and Miss Edith Scott dated 20 Sep 1935 Thrings papers 385 Personal knowledge - I had the honour to be a residential academic staff member of the College at this time and, along with Head of Horticulture Oliver Menhinick, CBE, my practical group and I put in the foundation pad (actually two of the garden staff, Head Gardener Brin Thornton and Gardener Stewart Matthews, did the digging; we just did the hardcore and concrete) 386 Agreement for the unfurnished letting of one of Lackham Cottages between HP Holt and Joseph Ocar Tapper) Thrings papers 113
The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners free (below). Lt Col Holt was paid an additional 10 shillings a year compensation for the land on which the 7 pillboxes guarding the estate stood. 387 It has been suggested that these must have been put in place when it was decided to use Lackham as Gen. Patton’s HQ – similar estates locally that were also requisitioned do not have such features 388 . However apart from the structures on the hill overlooking the park all of the pillboxes at Lackham guard the river and are part of the defensive lines established in 1941, two years before the Americans joined the allied forces. 387 W&SHC f2/600/117/1 1945 – 1949 letter dated 21 June 46 ref DLA.51/1219/R 388 For an in-depth investigation and survey of the pill boxes at Lackham see Pratt, T (2008) The WWII hardened field defences of Lackham copy in Wiltshire College Lackham library and online at http://www.lackhamcountrypark.co.uk/history/pillboxes%20working.pdf 114
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