After nearly 800 years of ownership, and following the death of the 7th Earl of Stamford without an heir, the Grey family Estates were broken up and the Bradgate Estate sold off in the 1920s.
Outlying parts of the Estate were sold in 1921, and the entire village of Newtown Linford and other nearby villages were sold in 1925.
The sale of Bradgate Park itself was held back until 1928, when Charles Bennion (founder of the British United Shoe Machinery Company, a major employer in Leicester at the time) purchased the Park.
Charles Bennion then, by prior arrangement with the City Council of Leicester, gave the Park in trust to be managed ?in perpetuity as an open space or public park for the purposes of recreation? by the people of Leicestershire and visitors to the county.