GLEBE FARM : KINGSTON DEVERILL : CO. WILTS; INGLESHAM FARM : HIGHWORTH : CO. WILTS; KINGSTON DEVERILL FARM : KINGSTON DEVERILL : CO. WILTS : EAST KNOYLE : CO. WILTS

FR WIL 6

1861-1929

Information about the donor's family is given in VCH : Wiltshire, v.4. At the end of the Napoleonic wars, the Strattons were dairy farmers. Between 1816 and 1860 they acquired downland cheaply and reclaimed it. In 1855 or 1856, William Stratton occupied Inglesham Farm, Highworth, co. Wilts and in 1865 Kingston Deverill Farm, which has been in the family's possession ever since. The family was especially successful in withstanding depressions in agriculture after 1880 by adjustments to their traditional sheep/corn systems, by a substantial change to dairying in the 1920's and by obtaining grass sheep rather than arable sheep Farm size etc. Inglesham Farm : about 300 acres; mixed soils, river alluvium and upper highlands; Kingston Deverill Farm : 1693 acres; The Glebe Farm : 342 acres; a farm at East Knoyle ; all mainly on chalk ; tenants to the Marquess of Bath

Letter, accounts, sale catalogue of stock, farm diaries, leases, inventory and valuation, Sundry papers

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Summary of classes 1 CORRESPONDENCE 2 BOOKS OF ACCOUNT 3 CATALOGUES 4 DIARIES 5 LEASES 6 RECIPES 7 VALUATIONS 8 SUNDRY PAPERS