Holding(s) in Company

Persimmon PLC
26 April 2002

Amendment # 23

NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- UK COMPANIES ACT

1. Company in which shares are held: PERSIMONN 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 (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.

SCHEDULE A

SECURITY: Persimmon Plc                                  Amendment # 23


                      SHARES HELD MANAGEMENT NOMINEE/REGISTERED
                                  COMPANY    NAME

(Ordinary Shares)                    

                       1,500,000   FMRCO    HSBC                           
                       5,517,021   FISL     Chase Nominees Ltd         
                         192,840   FPM      Bank of New York Europe    
                         606,758   FPM      Chase Nominees Ltd         
                         335,600   FPM      RBS Trust Bank                 
                         643,400   FPM      Bankers Trust              
                          61,590   FPM      Nortrust Nominees Ltd       
                         109,413   FPM      MSS Nominees Ltd                           
                          63,759   FPM      BT Globenet Nominees Ltd               
                          55,240   FPM      Citibank                   
                         124,800   FIL      Bankers Trust                  
                       1,122,098   FIL      RBS Trust Bank             
                          71,360   FIL      Citibank                   
                       3,369,989   FIL      MSS Nominees Ltd               
                         115,326   FIL      BT Globenet Nominees Ltd    
                         643,522   FIL      Chase Nominees Ltd            
                         250,083   FIL      Morgan Stanley            
                         276,238   FIL      Bank of New York Europe    
                         578,419   FIL      Northern Trust                      
                         370,458   FIL      Nortrust Nominees Ltd                           
                          32,100   FIL      Bank of New York - London  
                         346,536   FIL      JP Morgan                  
                         145,207   FIL      State Street Bank & Trust   






TOTAL ORDINARY SHARES:   16,531,757 

CURRENT OWNERSHIP PERCENTAGE:  5.96%

SHARES IN ISSUE:        277,282,242

CHANGE IN HOLDINGS SINCE
 LAST FILING:           (2,657,853) ordinary shares





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