A “ransom strip” is holding up the sale of the collapsed Von Essen Hotels’ Ston Easton Park.
Andrew Davis, who founded the group, would technically be entitled to charge any new owners a fee for access to a thin strip of land believed to be between the 360-acre Mendip Hills estate and the road. Meanwhile, Longleat has bought Bishopstrow House from administrators, which is near its Wiltshire safari and leisure attraction, for an estimated £5m.
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