About the Employer: Harewood

About Harewood

The Harewood Estate spans some 4000 acres and lies nestled between Leeds and Harrogate, set in the sweeping Yorkshire landscape designed by Lancelot “Capability” Brown 250 years ago.  Recent years have seen a major overhaul of the directions and operations at Harewood to ensure they continue to protect their past while also staying relevant for the future.

The Estate now has an increasingly diverse range of business interests including commercial units, residential properties, holiday cottages, arable and livestock farming, forestry, renewable energy generation, food production and hospitality.

Harewood has made great strides to become a leisure and lifestyle destination, undertaken extensive works to refurbish many Listed buildings and recently started a major 10-year landscape and heritage restoration and regeneration project (probably the biggest intervention since Brown’s time). The latter is funded via a Higher Tier Countryside Stewardship Scheme, which will restore damaged and degraded historic structures, ecosystems and natural processes, create new habitats, encourage greater biodiversity and enhance natural capital functions.

Most works are delivered by an inhouse Estate team, who are self-motivated, inspiring, skilled and dedicated people with a passion for Harewood, the environment, conservation and the outdoors. They want to play a part in initiatives that protect the Estate’s Listed buildings and features while also finding solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises that result in improved landscapes for future generations.