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Category: Farmers

Bow Street Farm has Six Owners in Ten Years!

Posted on January 1, 2023March 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Extract from 1906 Ordnance Survey Map. Second Edition. Surveyed in 1881. Revised 1904. Courtesy Martin Jeffery Holly Croft Farm is a delightful property in Bow Street. Tenement ‘Newmans’ The origins of the present farmhouse may well have been a tenement called Newmans. This tenement is referred to in the historical deeds to the property at…

George Cady’s Inclosure Act Award in 1802

Posted on December 1, 2022March 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Extract from 1802 Map of Great Ellingham. Russell James Colman Plans. Cat. Ref. C/Ca 1/84. All rights reserved Norfolk Record Office. With kind permission of NRO At the turn of the 19th century, George Cady owned a messuage and land in Bow Street. He had inherited the property from his brother William Cady. The brothers’…

Ownership of Land in the same Family for Generations

Posted on October 1, 2022September 30, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

On the 5th June, 1837, Edward Wilkins purchased the former ‘Town House’ in Long Street. Since the erection of the Wayland Union Workhouse in nearby Rocklands, the ‘Town House’ was no longer needed to house the poor of Great Ellingham. Accordingly, it became surplus to requirements. I believe this property – or at least the…

Two Clay and Tiled Cottages adjoining the Churchyard in Great Ellingham

Posted on July 1, 2022June 29, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

A family ownership spanning nearly 150 years came to an end at an auction at the Royal Hotel, Attleborough, on the 23rd June, 1910. Royal Hotel, Attleborough. Postcard courtesy Brian Vidler Following the death of Daniel William Cocking Warren, his daughter Annie Matthews Gladden, instructed auctioneers Salter, Simpson & Sons to sell her late father’s…

‘Valuable Small Farm known as Fir Tree Farm’

Posted on June 12, 2022March 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

In this blog, we look at two of the families who occupied a particular house in Long Street from around 1904 until at least the 1960s. The house is now known as Fir Tree Farm. However, I am uncertain when the farm was given the name ‘Fir Tree Farm’. I have discovered that the house…

A Series of Indentures conveying Cemetery Farm to John Wiggett

Posted on June 1, 2022March 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

It is always satisfying to come across documentation which either backs up or disproves my earlier research. In this case, deeds from 1801 confirm my belief that John Morphew sold his farmhouse in Long Street (later known as the Cemetery Farm) to John Wiggett. But do the legal documents tell us anything else? Conveyancing Documents…

1865 Auction Sale of Barnaby Barnard’s Properties in Bow Street

Posted on June 1, 2022May 30, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

During the early to mid-nineteenth century, Wymondham born Barnaby Ezekiel Barnard (also known as Barnabas Ezekiel Barnard), a yeoman, of Rockland St Peter, owned several properties in Great Ellingham. In his last will and testament, he appointed the Reverend William Bird (also of Rockland St Peter), and Ellis Turner, a farmer of Caston, as his…

The Rivetts at Pond Farm

Posted on May 1, 2022March 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Extract from 1906 Ordnance Survey Map. Second Edition. Surveyed in 1881. Author’s Collection The black dot on the above extract from a 1906 Ordnance Survey Map, shows the home of Leonard and Gertrude Rivett at Pond Farm in Watton Road, Great Ellingham. Pond Farm still exists. Further, there has been a dwelling on the site…

Messuage in Long Street later known as Fir Tree Farm

Posted on April 1, 2022March 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Inclosures At the beginning of the 19th century Thomas Warren owned and occupied a house in Long Street. This house was later known as Fir Tree Farm. A Statement of Claims c.1799 relating to the Great Ellingham Inclosures, provide details of the owners and occupiers of houses, cottages and the various parcels of land in…

James Fox ‘gives up’ his Farm in Bow Street

Posted on February 1, 2022March 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

1904 Auction of Farm in Bow Street Occupied by James Fox The Norfolk Chronicle of the 6th August, 1904, included notice of the sale by auction of a ‘Desirable Small Occupation Farm’ in Bow Street, Great Ellingham. The auction would take place at the Royal Hotel, Norwich at 7 o’clock in the evening of the…

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