Home Farm

In 1771 In the Highnam area a farm continued in the tenure of the Trigge family, based on what (confusingly after Guise had formed a new home farm) was often still called Home Farm.

In the mid nineteenth century Home Farm was part of the estate purchased by Thomas Gambier Parry. At that time the farm covered 269 acres. Among the tenant holdings on the estate, only a few were comparable in size to farms today. Home Farm, based on Two Mile Lane, was formed mainly of demesne land that the owners had once farmed themselves, but which in recent years had been leased out amongst a number of tenants.

In 1950 Thomas Mark Gambier Parry gifted the farms of the estate to W.P. Cripps, his cousin. The farm was subsequently sold by the Cripps and much of the agricultural land has been sold off to adjacent farmers. Home Farm is no longer a working Farm. The eight bedroom farmhouse is now a domestic property set in a few acres.

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