The owners of Lackham in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries ...

The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners
Appendix 4
Comparative land values 1835 -1945
Name
The text gives the amount paid by each of the owners and from this and the
extent of the estate it is possible to work out the amount paid per acre. The
value of money, however, changes over time and so converting all the values 476
to the equivalent purchasing power for a set year allows direct comparisons to
be made. The year chosen here is 2009,
Bought
Acreage
bought
Amount
Paid
2009
equivalent
(£m)
Price
per acre
2009
equivalent
Capt. Rooke 1835 590 £30,000 £2.57 £50.85 £5,380
Stapleton-Bretherton 1858 590 £40,000 £3.06 £67.80 £3,900
Henry Caldwell 1866 585 £46,000 £3.13 £78.63 £5,440
Brig Gen George Palmer 1893 585 £17,652 £1.48 £30.17 £2,550
Lord Glanely 1919 1469 £62,000 £3.79 £42.21 £1,430
Maj Herbert P Holt 1927 1469 £78,000 £3.45 £53.10 £2,350
Wilts. County Council 1945 600 £42,500 £1.36 £70.83 £2,450
Price per acre (normalised to 2009 values
£6,000
£5,000
£4,000
£3,000
£2,000
£1,000
£0
1835 1858 1866 1893 1919 1927 1945
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476 Values computed from Officer, LH (2010) Measuring worth using the comparison
tool at http://www.measureingworth.com/ppoweruk/index.php
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