Thomas Assheton Smith was an English landowner and all-round sportsman who was notable for being one of the outstanding amateur cricketers of the early 19th century. He was a Tory politician who sat i
Thomas Assheton Smith
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Vaynol or Y Faenol is a country estate dating from the Tudor period near Y Felinheli in Gwynedd, North Wales. It has 1,000 acres of park, farmland, and gardens, with more than thirty listed buildings,
Thomas Assheton Smith (1776–1858)
…day. In 1830, after the death of his father, he moved his stable and kennels to Tedworth House, also in Hampshire. Assheton Smith spent summers at his Vaynol Park estate in North Wales, on the shore of the Menai Strait and close to the family's slate quarries at Dinorwic. He had several sailing yachts built, then…
Vaynol Hall, c.1875
Faenol Old Hall
The gates to the Vaynol Estate