The story of the role of Brandsby as a leader in rural regeneration early in the 20th century and its squire Hugh Fairfax-Cholmeley has now been published by the Yorkshire Archeological Journal:
Patricia Alice McCarthy (2020) To Whom Belongs the Land: Change and Reform on a North Riding Estate, 1889 to 1914, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 92:1, 131-153, DOI: 10.1080/00844276.2020.1809851
Attached here is an unedited version of the above article, which you can read for free:
The Last Squire of Brandsby: Agricultural & Social Reformer 