In 1930 Mr Albert Sharman Denton moved from Brigstock and purchased the Home Farm on the High Street.  The farmhouse was a rambling 18^th century stone building with a Collyweston slate roof and windcheater chimney stacks, and a fine range of stone barns.  A small front garden was enclosed with a wooden fence.

Denton Farmhouse, High Street, in 1955	Denton Farmhouse just prior to its demolition in the mid 1960's

To the left of the house bordering the street, two stone steps led to a raised garden which stretched down to the entrance to the Poplars, now the council offices.  From the back window of the Council Chamber one could look down onto the cattle in the crew yard.

After the death of her parents, their daughter, Daisy, lived alone in the big farmhouse.  In his will Mr Denton left £2,357 15s 4d.  The farmland included the fields bordering the allotments, (now occupied by the schools and houses in Park Road) and the field at the top of Pioneer Avenue which, in 1937, was sold and became George V playing field now more familiarly known as the Recreation Ground. 

The field behind the farmyard became a fairground each year when Burton Feast was celebrated with a visit from Thurston’s Amusements. 

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Illustrated panel situated in Millennium Gardens close to site of former Denton's Farm at bottom of Churchill Way	Detail on illustrated panel shown on left

Mosaic within Millennium Gardens close to site of former Denton's Farm at bottom of Churchill Way