Holding in Company

Galliford Try PLC
17 October 2001


                                 SCHEDULE 10

                  NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

 1. Name of company

Galliford Try plc

2) Name of shareholder having a major interest

AMVESCAP PLC

3) Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a
non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18

As in 2 above

4) Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the
number of shares held by each of them

Chase Nominees Ltd - 7,811,000

Vidacos Nominees Ltd - 17,203,307

5) Number of shares/amount of stock acquired

1,250,000

6) Percentage of issued class

0.57%

7) Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

Nil

8) Percentage of issued class

-

9) Class of security

Ordinary shares of 5p

10) Date of transaction

15th October 2001

11) Date company informed

16th October 2001

12) Total holding following this notification

25,014,307

13) Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

11.526%



14) Any additional information

The above holding included the following notifiable holdings:- INVESCO

English and International Trust PLC holds 7,811,000 shares (3.59%)

registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited and INVESCO Perpetual UK

Small Companies Core Fund holds 8,692,150 shares (4.005%) registered in the

name of Vicados Nominees Limited.


15) Name of contact and telephone number for queries

Richard Barraclough

01895 855204

16) Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for
making this notification

Date of notification 17th October 2001