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Savernake Forest, located between Marlborough and Hungerford in the English county of Wiltshire, is privately owned by the Trustees of Savernake Estate, the Earl of Cardigan and his family solicitor. It extends to some 4,500 acres (18 km²), and is the only privately owned forest in Great Britain. Guardianship of the forest has now largely passed via lease to the Forestry Commission. No one can say how old Savernake Forest is. It cannot be less than 1,000 years old, as it is referred to in a Saxon charter from King Athelstan in 934 AD, being called "Safernoc". It is certainly older than the other great forest of southern England, the New Forest, which was only planted over a century later by the Normans, and whose name reminds us that it is younger than ancient Savernake. Since it was put into the care of Richard Esturmy, one of the victorious knights who fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, Savernake Forest has passed down from father to son (or daughter, on four occasions) in an unbroken line for 31 generations, never once being bought or sold in a thousand years, and today it is the only forest in Britain still in private hands. The high-water mark of the Savernake Estate's fortunes was undoubtedly in Tudor times. The head of the family (Sir John Seymour) was used to welcoming King Henry VIII to the forest, where the king was very keen on deer-hunting. King Henry stayed at Savernake shortly after the execution of Queen Anne Boleyn in 1536, and his eye was then taken by his host's daughter, Jane. They were subsequently married, and Jane Seymour was crowned Queen just months later, causing the head of the family at Savernake to suddenly find himself father-in-law to Henry VIII. Jane died in childbirth, and after marrying again, Henry himself died a few years later. So it fell to Jane's brother Edward Seymour to leave his estate of Savernake Forest in 1547 and to go up to Hampton Court, where for the next five years with the title 'Lord Protector'
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