Full Details - A.S. Denton

Denton's Home Farm, High Street
Home Farm, High Street, not to be confused with
Home Farm, Kettering Road. Farmed by the Denton
family from the mid 1920s until it was sold for a housing
development in the 1960s. Its land extended from
High Street to the River Ise.

MAF No: 71/10

Owner/Tenant

A.S. Denton

Type

Full time farmer

Soil %: Heavy = H, Medium = M, Light = L

M: 25%, L:75%

Natural condition of farm/smallholding

100% Fair

Cottages

0

Acres of Derelict land

0

Management of farm/small-holding

B

Reason for management classification

Old age

Acres Crops/Wheat

39.25

Acres Crops/Barley

9

Acres Crops/Oats

22.75

Acres Crops/Other

2

Acres Potatoes

3

Acres Vegetables for fodder

12.5

Acres Vegetables/Fruit for human consumption

2

Acres Orchard

0

Acres Fallow/clover/grazing

66

Total Acreage

156.5

Full time workers male

2

Full time workers female

0

Casual/part time workers male

2

Casual/part time workers female

0

Cattle/calves

53

Sheep/lambs

0

Pigs

2

Poultry

50

Goats

0

Horses

5

Other crops (acres)

0

Tons Straw/Hay

0

Tractors

1

Engines

3 x 4 hp

Rent per annum by tenant or estimated by owner

£186

Years occupied

16