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| Keywords: HolnicoteStables Selworthy Somerset.JPG en Stalls in stables built by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland 9th Baronet 1752 “1794 at Holnicote Selworthy Somerset The thirty stag heads on the walls date from about 1787 to 1793 and were killed under his mastership of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds Some of the brow points of the antlers were notoriously sawn-off by a groom because they interfered with the loading of hay into the mangers Acland Anne 1981 p 27 A similar collection of stagheads amassed by his father the 7th Baronet and much beloved by him was destroyed during a fire at Holnicote in 1779 Acland Anne A Devon Family The Story of the Aclands London and Chichester Phillimore 1981 pp 25 27 Now property of the National Trust own photo Lobsterthermidor <span class signature-talk ></span> 17 16 29 October 2014 UTC 2014 Holnicote Estate Cervus elaphus heads male Deer trophies | ||||
