Countryside Stewardship Scheme

The Countryside Stewardship Scheme (CSS) is designed to achieve the enhancement of farming practices to deliver natural habitat and landscape improvements.

We have two such schemes; one that has restored water meadows along the river Enborne, increased field species across all field margins, and restoration of indigenous grassland throughout the estate; the other aims to restore the historic parkland landscape. The Parkland Restoration commenced with a research study recently completed, looking at how the parkland was laid out and managed over the last three centuries.