was given the original farmhouse estate, formerly the main manor, and its remaining 300 acres, Headley Court, in 1880 by his father on the condition that he would make a career in banking rather than become a farmer. He redeveloped it in 1898. The family fortune had been made by Walter's grandfather, James Cunliffe, through his development of the North Eastern Railway.

Land use and Headley Heath

There has been little new housing built

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