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Winn family landed estates

Other Business Names:

  • Winn, Rowland
  • St Oswald, Lord

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Appleby, North Lincolnshire, Humberside, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
  • Nostell, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire & the Humber, England

Sectors:

  • Extraction Coal extraction
  • Extraction Iron ore extraction
  • Property activities Landed estate management

Notes:

By 19th century Winn family were important landowners at Nostell, West Yorkshire, and at Appleby, North Lincolnshire. By mid century Rowland Winn and his brothers set about restoring the fortunes of the estates by developing in the 1860s iron ore extraction at Appleby and coal extraction at Nostell with great success. Rowland subsequently created Lord St Oswald

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