Gloucestershire estate to ‘build UK’s largest beaver enclosure’

The owners of an estate in Gloucestershire have plans to build what they said would be the largest beaver enclosure in the UK.

Elmore Court, a Grade II listed mansion by the River Severn near Stroud, is planning a reconstruction of its land to include a new beaver enclosure as well as the introduction of wild ponies and pigs as part of a rewilding project started in 2020.

“The next chapter will see the construction of the UK’s largest beaver enclosure,” a spokesperson for the estate said.

Custodian of the estate Anselm Guise said “protecting and restoring nature” could not “sit apart from making the estate work economically”. He said he was “constantly working to find this balance”.

Guise said the project would take two years to complete.