Posted by Paul Crisp on April 14, 2012 at 00:57:47 user Paul_Crisp.
In Reply to: The National Trust & AR posted by PRoche on April 14, 2012 at 23:42:48:
It is probably because none of the owners of AR's houses has donated their house to the Trust, together, I believe, with sufficient income to maintain it.
Bateman's was left to the National Trust by Mrs. Kipling on her death in 1939 with over three hundred acres of productive farmland.