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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… be seen on air photographs; around the church and Fir Tree Farm the traces appear to be those of old enclosures. In 1813 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and beans. 21The usual animals were kept: 22the Daintrys' farm was supposed in the 17th century to carry a permanent … for each acre occupied. 24In 1796 the lessee of a 240-a. farm had 20 horses, 10 cows, 280 sheep, and 170 pigs. 25 … was divided along the main road. To the east lay Hall farm, managed until the 1870s by a bailiff or land steward, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the drainage is poor. 68From near the modern Crow's Nest Farm a brook runs northward down a narrow depression. The … admitted from 1923, being installed in the former Home Farm, renamed Homeleigh, disused from 1955 and demolished in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the south. 64By 1929 the Settlement had laid out a sewage farm near Kisby's Hut inside Papworth St. Agnes. 65Street …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Phillips in 1668. John retained the Red Lion and the farm cultivated from it, 61which descended after his death in … Colony, which in 1920 also acquired the 160-a. Home farm. 81The Settlement bought another 120 a. between 1933 and 1945 and Firtree farm ( c. 340 a.) to the west in 1940. In 1982, with almost …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… and two identical cups, London 1772. Secular b(2) Manor Farm, house and buildings, is situated at the N. end of the … flues with conjoined capping. Papworth St. Agnes, Manor Farm The W. front, of red brick, much of it reused and … cast-iron grates, some of Gothic design. b(6) Passhouse Farm, L-shaped, partly two-storeyed and partly one-storeyed …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… comprised 47 a. and 37 a. 22In 1586 the main former priory farm included 86 a. of arable and 40 a. of pasture. 23 In … 34 After the recovery by 1758 of the 150-a. Papworth farm, 35the manorial estate probably included the whole … century the Sperling estate was divided between Dumptilow farm in the north, in hand until the 1850s and usually …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… mostly 19th-century, timber-framed and thatched. Passhouse Farm near the church is a 17th-century farmhouse, much altered and restored in the 1970s. 14Hill Farm of c. 1800 and the later Dumptilow Farm were both built in the former open fields. About 1850 a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… son Robert. 82Between 1747 and 1758 Pigott bought a 150-a. farm at Papworth, settled in 1665 by Thomas Cater upon a …