In 1994 Northmoor House and 100 acres of surrounding land was purchased by Tom Yandle (born 1935) of Riphay, Brushford, near Dulverton. Tom Yandle is a farmer and chairman of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds and was High Sheriff of Somerset in 1999 and a committee member of both the National Trust and Exmoor National Park, and played a leading role in challenging both the National Trust's decision to ban stag hunting on the Holnicote Estate and the Labour government's ultimately successful proposal to ban hunting with hounds. The Yandle family was previously resident at nearby Duvale an historic estate in the parish of Bampton, Devon.