Located in the dress circle with views over Masterton from the west, Bagshot is only 15 minutes’ drive from town. One of the Wairarapa’s original farming family’s the Mawley’s accumulated large tracts of farmland in the late 1800’s. Septimus Mawley came to New Zealand in the 1870s, after spending a time training as an architect in the London office of his fathers. He went to Hawkes Bay to learn farming, then came down and bought the farm he called ‘Ditton’. He married in 1881 and had two children. One of these, Gerald was killed in WW1 at Passchendaele, the other Henry Heathcote survived until 1966. The ‘Ditton’ farm was broken up into ‘Ditton’ and ‘Bagshot’ around 1910. H.H. Mawley kept ‘Bagshot’, while ‘Ditton’ was sold to the Falloon family. Now the descendants offer Bagshot for sale - what a rare opportunity this presents! The property is very well balanced with 552ha effective featuring 150ha of flat to rolling easy hill and 200ha of easy-medium hill; including 220ha of easy rolling Limestone country. The property winters around 3000 ewes and 110 cows, with replacements; approx. 5,400 stock units. The farm is well subdivided into 78 paddocks, with a quality water supply - all but 6 paddocks rely on dam water. Bagshot has an excellent fertiliser history with between 60-100t of Super applied every year, on average. A recent soil test indicates Olsen P levels of 31.2 and pH 5.62, average. The rainfall is 1100mm in a semi summer dry climate. The homestead is a character family home set in established grounds with a tidy cottage and managers house handily located. The four stand wool shed is accompanied by a large set of covered yards, cattle yards, satellite yards and numerous other support sheds and buildings. An old homestead offers potential. The property is made up of 6 titles including access off Rangitumau to the west. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to purchase the historic Bagshot - call Blair today - property report available. Tender Closes: 4pm Thursday 30th November 2017 at NZR Office, Level 1, 16 Perry Street, Masterton 5810. Video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6BOzJm9lZ8