Holnicote Estate is a National Trust property consisting of 5,026 hectares (12,420 acres) of Exmoor National Park situated in West Somerset, England.[1] The property has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1932, when it was donated by the Acland family.
Holnicote Estate contains more than 240 kilometres (150 mi) of footpaths and bridleways.[2] It includes Dunkery and Selworthy Beacons, and the villages and hamlets of Selworthy, Allerford, Bossington, Horner and Luccombe as well as the Horner and Dunkery National Nature Reserve.
The estate also plays host to a point to point course on which many Exmoor hunts hold their meetings throughout the spring.
During the early 1940s the property was used by the Somerset County Council as a children's home where many children born from liaisons between African American service men and local women were housed, after being given up for adoption.[3]