Locals forced to have green doors in rural village owned by aristocratic family

. Locals in the rural village of Wentworth in Yorkshire must submit requests to the village trust to make any alterations. to their properties.

Matt Thompson, 43, said: "It’s forced to be [traditional] because of the rules the estate has to abide by, everything has to be uniform. Hence all the ‘Wentworth Green’. I see it everybody – but yes people come in and say ‘what a great village’.” Acting as landlords, the estate is run by Sir Philip Naylor-Leyland Bt., grandson of the 10th Earl Fitzwilliam, and Lady Juliet Tadgell, daughter of the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam. The aristocratic family hold a staggering 95% of properties with the trust having near complete control over the village's architecture and operations and villagers merely serve as tenants, unable to claim ownership of their homes.

Craig said: “It’s a quaint quiet little village owned by a trust that likes to, as far is it can, keep things as it always has done. Certain things like the door colours, the lamps.” He said: “I meet with everyone who moves into a property in Wentworth. We sit, have a chat and I sort of explain the ownership and how the trust wants to preserve the historical aspects and architecture of Wentworth.

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