the Highland Light Infantry, and "on summer evenings when the skirl of the bagpipes could be heard approaching the village, a crowd would gather on the Market Square (Orford) and the pipe and drum band would entertain the villagers for maybe an hour marching and counter marching up and down the square and then with the skirl of the bagpipes fading into distance they returned to Sudbourne Hall". The Orford Battle Training Area was later used by the 79th Armoured Division under Major-General Sir Percy Hobart, a "specialist armoured formation developed with the purpose of breaching the Atlantic Wall defences of occupied Europe and tasked with developing the machines and techniques that would be vital if the D-Day landings were to be successful". In the Orford Battle Training Area, which became known as "The Zoo", Hobart developed a range of modified vehicles known as "Hobart’s Funnies", which were intended to overcome obstacles such as minefields and heavily fortified defences, including concrete bunkers. In 1946 the Earl of Cranbrooke spoke as follows in the House of Lords concerning residents evicted from Battle Training Areas: In 1948 when the War Department released the Orford Battle Training Area, Sudbourne Hall was in such poor condition that in 1953 it was demolished by the 3rd Baronet and the Italian gardens were abandoned. In 2014 the Sudbourne estate, then comprising 530 acres, was owned by the latter's son Sir Edward Bernard Greenwell, 4th Baronet (born 1948), of nearby Gedgrave Hall, Woodbridge (an estate of 2,500 acres), and of Greenwell, Wolsingham, County Durham, the family's original ancient seat, High Sheriff of Suffolk in 2013–14. In 2014 he submitted plans to the local authority to build 10 houses within the old walled garden at Sudbourne, next to the surviving large stable block (previously converted to multiple housing units) and courtyard, the proceeds to be used "to plant new trees, to restore tree-lined driveways, repair an historic walled garden dating back to 1841, put back a Victorian fruit and vegetable garden, repair steps, create a broadwalk from terracing to a lake, and carry out other work". He continues to own Butley Abbey, let out as a wedding venue and as holiday accommodation, and the Gedgrave estate, "containing houses and workshops for rent, including the recent conversion of a Victorian dairy into a range of small, high-quality offices". In addition he owns Dalmigavie, an upland estate in Scotland. Further