Holding(s) in Company

Persimmon PLC
27 August 2002


LETTER TO PERSIMMON PLC - DATED 23 AUGUST 2002

Amendment #24

NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- UK COMPANIES ACT 

1. Company in which shares are held: PERSIMMON PLC

2. Notifiable Interest:     ORDINARY SHARES 

     (A)   FMR Corp. 
           82 Devonshire Street 
           Boston, MA 02109 

           Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company 
           (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity
           Management Trust Company (FMTC), a US state chartered bank which
           acts as a trustee or investment manager of various pension and 
           trust accounts. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered 
           Shareholders and their holdings.)

     (B)   Fidelity International Limited (FIL) 
           P.O. Box HM 670
           Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda 

           Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries, 
           including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd. (FISL), Fidelity Pension  
           Management (FPM), and investment managers for various non-US 
           investment companies and institutional clients. (See Schedule A for 
           listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings). 

3.     The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of:
           Mr Edward C Johnson 3d 
           82 Devonshire Street 
           Boston, MA 02109 

           Principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International 
           Limited. 

4.     The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized 
       unit trust schemes in the U.K. notwithstanding the exemption from  
       reporting pursuant to Section 209 (1)(h) of the Companies Act 1985.

5.     These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate 
       notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for  
       the purposes of clarity. Nothing herein should be taken to indicate  
       that FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, 
       Fidelity International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries
       or Mr Edward C Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of 
       the disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit these 
       notifications on a joint basis.

6.     The disclosable interests arise under section 208 (4)(b) of the Act, 
       namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled
       to exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to 
       control the exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act 
       respectively.

LETTER FROM FIDELITY MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH COMPANY


SCHEDULE A

SECURITY: Persimmon Plc                                  Amendment #24

                      SHARES HELD MANAGEMENT  NOMINEE/REGISTERED NAME 
                                   COMPANY
(Ordinary Shares)                     
                       1,500,000   FMRCO      HSBC                            
                          50,000   FMTC       MSCO
                       5,838,942   FISL       Chase Nominees Ltd          
                         166,040   FPM        Bank of New York Europe     
                         381,243   FPM        RBS Trust Bank                  
                          56,500   FPM        Bankers Trust               
                         100,090   FPM        Nortrust Nominees Ltd       
                          52,100   FPM        MSS Nominees Ltd                    
                          56,059   FPM        BT Globenet Nominees Ltd            
                          55,240   FPM        Citibank                    
                         113,300   FIL        Bankers Trust                   
                         743,088   FIL        RBS Trust Bank              
                          66,780   FIL        Citibank                    
                       3,436,436   FIL        MSS Nominees Ltd                
                         122,683   FIL        Chase Nominees Ltd            
                         193,483   FIL        Morgan Stanley            
                       2,817,315   FIL        Bank of New York London     
                         426,700   FIL        Northern Trust                      
                         124,500   FIL        Nortrust Nominees Ltd               
                         276,770   FIL        JP Morgan                   
                         150,100   FIL        State Street Nominees Ltd   


TOTAL ORDINARY SHARES:    16,727,369 

CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE:  6.02%

SHARES IN ISSUE:        277,939,585 

CHANGE IN HOLDINGS SINCE
 LAST FILING:              +195,612 ordinary shares 





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