 By the late 1700s , John Tynte owned what is now the Tyntesfield estate ; at that time the house was approached by an avenue of elm trees , planted after they were bequeathed in the 1678 will of Sir Charles Harbord to the people of Wraxall in memory of two boys he had apprenticed from the village . The Tynte 's had originally lived on the estate , but by the early 1800s , John had made <unk> Court in Brockley his principal residence . Tynte 's Place was downgraded to a farmhouse and leased to John <unk> . In 1813 , George Penrose Seymour of the adjoining Belmont estate purchased the property and gave it to his son , the Rev. George Turner Seymour . He in turn built a new Georgian mansion on the site of the former Saddler 's Tenement , and demolished the old farmhouse . Further remodelling was undertaken by Robert Newton of Nailsea . 
