The woodland, at Hinton Blewett, sold for a whopping £106,000. Picture: GTH

Parcel of Somerset woodland smashes guide price at auction

Paul JonesAugust 4, 20250 Comment0

A PARCEL of Somerset woodland boasting countryside views sold for more than £40,000 over its guide price at a recent auction.

The site, measuring around 6.75 acres (2.73 hectares), included a mixture of mature and semi-mature deciduous trees.

It was situated on the outskirts of the Chew Valley, near the village of Hinton Blewett, and sold for £106,000 – well above the pre-sale guide of £60,000 – at a sale held by auctioneers Greenslade Taylor Hunt (GTH) at Lympsham.

Other sales on the day saw another single parcel of land, of some 7.18 acres (2.91 hectares) at Shepton Mallet, sell for £104,000, while a larger block of farm land at Nailsea went for £324,000.

“The auctioneers are delighted to report that the auction produced a 100% clearance rate on all the land with prices exceeding expectations,” a spokesperson said.

The next similar auction will be at the Sedgemoor Auction Centre, Junction 24, North Petherton, on Thursday, September 25.

For more details, and to discuss selling land by auction, contact the GTH auction team on 0117 203 5577 or 01935 423474, or email farms.redhill@gth.net or farms.yeovil@gth.net.