Deopham History

Home Farm

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1814 Inclosures Survey

At the time the Inclosure Commissioners drew up their plan, there was no building on the site of the present day Home Farmhouse:

1843 Tithe Survey

The following extract from the 1843 Tithe Map shows the extent of the farm owned and occupied by John Fenix outlined in green. He lived in farm 104 – now known as South Cottage. The full tithe analysis of John Fenix’s lands is available here. John Fenix Junior lived in Farm 112.
The area outlined in red was at this time owned by Rowing Brasnett’s executors, but farmed by John Fenix. The full tithe analysis of Rowing Brasnett’s lands is available here.

1941

See here for details of Home Farm at the time of the 1941 Farm Survey. This shows that the owner and farmer at the time was Mr. Samuel P. Stone.

1943

The following particulars relate to the sale of the farm by “Mr S. Phoenix Stone (who is retiring from Farming)”:

Reproduced by courtesy of Wymondham Town Archive; their ref BF61.

The second page of the above description lists the fields and property included in the sale by reference to the 1906 Ordnance Survey Map. The extract below shows the land detailed in the sales particulars: