Land sales

• ARABLE and pasture land at Coole Lane, Nantwich, Cheshire sold to a top price of £6,189 per acre when a total of 387 acres were sold by Wright Manley.

Some 416 acres were offered in total in 17 lots and the average for the 387 acres actually sold (only one 28 acre lot was unsold) was £5,522. Prices ranged from £4,880 for 12 acres adjoining the river Weaver.

• New House Farm, Glewstone, Ross on Wye – a farmhouse, buildings and 24 acres – made £725,000 when sold by R.G. and R.B. Williams, on behalf of Herefordshire Council. A small field of 3.66 acres realised £20,000.

• High quality land in Lincolnshire has sold to £10,100 per acre.

A total of 258 acres including some toft silt were offered by Brown and Co at Friskney, Boston.

Approximately 30 acres were sold on behalf of the trustees of the Tuplin and Son Directors’ Special Pension Fund.

Poplars Farm, comprising 189 acres including ten acres of toft silt and 12? acres of outmarsh made £1.275million –£6,746 per acre overall, valuing the arable land at £7,525/acre. Two 14-acre fields of finest toft silt, fetched between £9,100 per acre to just over £10,100 per acre and were bought by Graham Shooter of E.A. Lenton (Estates).

• AN 8.78-acre block of pasture land at Bolas Road, Ercall Heath, Telford, has been sold for £76,000 – £8,656 per acre – at auction in Shrewsbury by auctioneers, Halls. It had planning consent for the erection of a cattle building and a mains water supply.