 He purchased another estate at Hafod Uchtryd, Ceredigion, Wales, 65 miles away, the manor house of which he filled with valuable works of art.He planted 3 million trees on the Hafod estate and created a highly picturesque landscape painted in 1789 by J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851).He met with financial difficulties and sold Croft Castle in the 1780s to Somerset Davies (c.1754-1817), MP for Ludlow in 1783.