In this modern age there is a delicate balance to be struck between ensuring that our countryside management meets the needs of modern agricultural production and retaining Burghley’s unique historical character and landscape.

This is achieved on the wider Estate by a partnership with our tenant farmers.

Burghley also directly employs a team of 5 foresters/countryside management workers who are highly skilled, flexible and motivated, who will work all over the Estate and whose chief focus is the Park.

We also retain the services of specialist local contractors, skilled in hedge cutting, hedge laying, drystone walling, Collyweston slating, tree planting, tree felling, tree surgery and fencing.