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There are 3 booklets that can be purchased from Eaton Estate Office; one about the Gardens, one about the carriage collection and one about the railway.

This year HRH The Prince of Wales visited the Eaton Estate village of Aldford. He laid the corner stone of a new Affordable Housing initiative and met the local people. In the evening there was a ball for the Prince's Trust. For the full story please click here.

The 3rd Duke

William Grosvenor was the 3rd Duke of Westminster. Brain damaged at birth he was such a small baby that he was fed milk through a fountain pen filler. His mother died shortly after he was born and so he was brought up and looked after by his stepmother Rosamund.

He and Rosamund lived in a small private house in the south of England and were given a living allowance by the Grosvenor Estate. When Rosamund died William had a number of carers and moved to Bath for a short period. He died in 1963 in Whitstable.