For details of Park View Farm, click here and for Park Lane Farm, see here.
1813 Auction
Prior to the auction of John Bousell’s estate by his executors, this must have been one of the largest farms in the village with 186 acres of land extending from Park Lane through to the Wymondham road.
The following advertisement appeared in the Norfolk Chronicle dated August 7th, 1813, listing Francis Read as the tenant:
© THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
The above sale particulars are reproduced with permission from the Wymondham Town Archive which holds the originals.
These particulars contain eight “Conditions of Sale”. Most are standard, apart from the sixth:
The estate being charged with the payment of an annuity of £125 during the life of a Lady aged nearly sixty years, part of the purchase money shall be laid out in the purchase of stock, at the option of the vendors, of which the dividends shall be equal in amount to the annuity, in the names of four Trustees, two to be named by the vendors & two by the purchaser, upon trust to pay the annuity, & to indemnify the estate against it, & after the death of the annuitant to transfer the Stock to the vendors the Deed declaring the Trust of the Stock to be prepared at their expense.
1814 Enclosures Map
All rights reserved by Norfolk Record Office who hold the original; their ref is NRO C/Sca 2/86
1815 Survey
The 1815 Survey of Deopham includes the “Estate of the late John Bousell” which it shows as having been sold in separate lots as follows:
| Sold to: | Arable | Pasture | Consolidated | ||||||
| Acres | Rods | Perches | Acres | Rods | Perches | Acres | Rods | Perches | |
| Robert Rix | 40 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| James Forster | 75 | 3 | 14 | 28 | 3 | 11 | |||
| Revd Barker | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Revd Reynolds | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| Revd Wilkinson | 12 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Revd George Hewitt & John Steward (see also Witton QAB land in Deopham) | 11 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Revd George Hewitt (see also Witton QAB land in Deopham) | 10 | 0 | 32 | ||||||
| Totals | 157 | 3 | 13 | 28 | 3 | 11 | 186 | 2 | 24 |
The total shown above of 186 acres, 2 rods and 24 perches agrees exactly with the auction particulars of 1813.
1881 Map
Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland
1941 Farm Survey
There are details of the 1941 Farm Survey for Park Farm here: this shows a farm size of 182 acres – little changed from 1813.
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 16/4/24 | 1813 newspaper advertisement |
| 22/11/23 | 1814 & 1881 maps added |
| 3/10/23 | 1941 link added |
| 14/9/23 | Published |
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