Farmers on the Knockmealdown mountains who are in a rent dispute with the Duke of Devonshire, saw protestors sympathetic to their plight occupy an exclusive antiquarian bookshop in Mayfair, London, belonging to the ‘absentee landlord’ at the centre of the row.
Protests took place recently as the Duke of Devonshire allegedly raised rents for sheep farmers in the Knockmealdown Mountains by ‘up to 900%’.
Affected farmers tend to the land in the mountains on the Lismore estate, owned by the duke, Peregrine Cavendish. A small group occupied the Heywood Hill store in the English capital in response to the escalating dispute.
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