Lackham was never again held for more than one generation after the Montagu tenure of Lackham ended in Chancery trusteeship.  After having just three families in over 850 years the next century saw 7 different owners, including the powerful mill-owning and weaving family of Palmer from Trowbridge, the Lord Glanely (a shipping magnate from Cardiff ennobled for his contribution to the national effort in WWI) and latterly the Wiltshire agricultural education school. 

Wiltshire College Lackham is the current embodiment of this organisation, and carries forward the estate into its second millennium.

If you would like to know more about the history of the estate there are a number of books and talks available; contact Andrew Davies, the curator of the Lackham Museum of Agriculture and Rural Life Trust or Tony Pratt, the Trust historian, here at Lackham.