Title
SANDLEFORD FARM : NEWBURY : CO. BERKS
Reference
FR BER 20
Production date
1874 - 1945
Creator
Creator History
The donor's family were originally tenant farmers at Chipley, co. Somerset. In 1873 they moved to co. Berks, first as sheep and cattle farmers and later as dairy farmers. A dairy shop selling cream and butter was opened in 1886,possibly linked with a dairy and cheese cooperative organisation. Sandleford Farm, which had been in continuous occupation for some 300 years, was the home farm for Sandleford Priory Estate. One third of it was arable: about 140 acres were devoted to corn.
In the time of the donor's grandfather, there were 18-20 acres of water meadow on the farm. The Grandfather's two brothers, Charles and Thomas Butler, were both farmers, the latter at Manor Farm, Shalford, near Guildford, co. Essex. Another brother built motor cars in the early years of this century. He owned the first petrol cycle in Britain, and installed a refrigeration plant in a boat. The donor, an only son, has one daughter. His father, Stanley Webb Butler, was also an only son
Farm size etc
341 acres in 1887, subsequently rising to 500 acres and falling after 1931 to about 300 acres; gravel soils; tenants on the Sandleford Priory estate; since 1947 the farm has belonged to a property company
Scope and Content
Papers of Sandleford Farm, Newbury, Berkshire
Extent
10 series
Level of description
fonds
Content person
Content Subject
System of arrangment
1 AGREEMENTS
2 BOOKS OF ACCOUNT
3 CATALOGUES
4 CONTRACTS
5 CROP BOOKS
6 FLOCK BOOKS
7 LABOUR BOOKS
8 LEASES
9 PASS BOOKS
10 VALUATIONS