BRANDEN CREEK FARM : OUSEBRIDGE FARM : UPTON FARM: WILLOW ROWS FARM : LITTLEPORT : ELY : CO.CAMBRIDGE; LOWES FARM : HILGAY : CO. NORFOLK

FR CAM 3

1862-1953

The donor's family, long established in the Littleport area, has occupied one farm for over 120 years. During the inter-war years the family was primarily concerned with pedigree Frisian cattle and (after 1925) with sugar beet. There was however a large acreage of potatoes, with wheat and barley. The donor himself took a Cambridge degree in Agriculture : his two sons read Agricultural and Earth Sciences Farm size etc. Up to 1914, about 600 acres; immediately after the first world war the acreage rose to 1500 acres and later to about 2000 acres

Farm accounts for various farms in Littleport and Lowes Farm, Hilgay, Norfolk; catalogue of farming implements; stock book; valuation of Lowes Farm

4 series

fonds

Littleport Branden Creek Farm, Cambridgeshire, Littleport Ousebridge Farm, Cambridgeshire, Littleport Upton Farm, Cambridgeshire, Littleport Willow Rows Farm, Cambridgeshire, Hilgay Lowes Farm, Norfolk

Littleport, Hilgay, Agriculture

Summary of classes 1 BOOKS OF ACCOUNT 2 CATALOGUES 3 STOCK BOOKS 4 VALUATIONS