Beavers have been born in Essex for the first time since the Middle Ages, conservationists have said. The mammals had been hunted to extinction for their meat, fur and scent glands in the UK by ...

The two dam-builder parents were the first beavers to live in the wild in Essex for 400 years. ... Flood-defence duo produce offspring at Spains Hall Estate. ... The estate at Finchingfield ...

Last year, a pair of Eurasian beavers were placed in Spains Hall Estate in Finchingfield to help reduce flood risk due to their abilities in building dams and moderating water flows.

The beavers at Spains Hall Estate, near Finchingfield, have produced yet another litter of kits. This brings the family to 11 and the total number of enclosed beavers on the ground-breaking Essex ...

Renovation work on the stables of a 15th Century estate in Essex has uncovered graffiti etched onto a wall 150 years ago. The writing was discovered during work on the Grade II listed coach-house ...

A HISTORIC country estate which was once the subject of a 150 year mystery of sunken treasure has gone on the market for the first time in 250 years. Spains Hall in Essex dates back to the Norman ...

The celebrity cook has been granted for permission to repair the Georgian timber sash windows and French doors on that section of his Grade 1 listed Spains Hall in Finchingfield.

Hopes the semi-aquatic mammal will help slow floodwaters in Finchingfield. The wood is nothing out of the ordinary. A thicket of poplar, ash and hazel trees with cricket bat willows dotted ...

The TV chef bought an Elizabethan manor house in Finchingfield, Essex, in 2019, and a pair of Eurasian beavers were brought into the nearby Spains Hall Estate the same year.

A pair of beavers released into the wild in Essex for the first time in 400 years have had two offspring. The Eurasian beavers were bred in captivity and introduced at the Spains Hall Estate near ...