Terling Place, midway between Chelmsford and Witham in Essex is a regular view on Essex balloon rides. The family seat of Lord Rayleigh, this large Georgian house was built between 1772 and 1777 with additions in 1818 and 1824. The family name is Strutt and there are family connections to well known estate agency Strutt and Parker and the family has 8 arable farms over East Anglia producing in a typical year 50,000 tones of wheat for breadmaking, sugar beet and potatoes.