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Local History: Bartonsham Farm

21/3/2020

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Things are changing on the farm, the cows have all gone now and the land has all been turned over to arable. This will all look very different, and will it work with flood risks always present?

We do have a brief history of the Dairy already on our website. Where John Matthews tells us about his grandfather who took on the tenancy at Bartonsham farm back in the 1920’s and began the Dairy.
There is an aerial photo of the farm on Hereford History website from 1933, which shows trees in the fields, Bartonsham Farm, aerial view, 1933 - Herefordshire History

The ordnance survey map from 1888 also shows lots of trees over the fields. I think these are orchards. I seem to remember reading something from a history site about the ragamuffins pinching fruit from the orchards at the end of Green Street. Interestingly ‘Liable to Floods’ is also marked on the map across the fields.
​There is also a little pond marked in the field below park street houses. This is also visible on the aerial photo.  Does anyone remember this?
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This may be further back then anyone still here might remember, but maybe some of you have your own stories and memories of the farm here at Bartonsham. We would love to hear them.
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Philip W Baldwin
22/3/2020 11:07:00 am

Dear Bartonsham farmers,
This announcement saddens me a lot - I have long been critical of riverside farmland being used for arable crops, such as potatoes , although very profitable I'm sure ! What happens when all the TOPSOIL HAS BEEN WASHED DOWNSTREAM BY ANNUAL FLOODING, silting up the lower river, and causing more problems further down. This Hfd. land has ALWAYS been flooded , and remained good fertile grassland. OK , I know that the cows have to be moved somewhere else, until the pasture has become firm again, but it always has been the case. This is short-term profit-making and bad for the land in the long-term. What's the answer ?
Secondly, I was thinking in January of a good N Y resolution for the Dairy (whose products get delivered to my home every week) : - Could you please find a Re-cycleable container product for your Cream !?
Yours sincerely, Philip W Baldwin, Hampton Park.susanjbaldwin@yahoo.com

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