{"id":19,"date":"2022-01-06T16:54:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T16:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2022-02-13T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T13:01:02","slug":"agriculture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Millfield Farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Croft Farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Home Farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mill House Farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pear Tree Farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Corner Farm & Lake View Farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
We thank the following for sharing their photographs, Carol Swift, Gerry Sergison, Barry Coates, June Langhorn, David Jarrad Granville Brownbridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Over the years, there have been 18 farms in and around Osgodby, these have now declined to only 6 working farms. This number doesn’t include the Experimental Fruit Farm, set up by Leeds University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. West Common Farm<\/strong>

    The farmhouse was built around 1920 by the East Riding Council. Newlyweds, Thomas Laverack Jackson and his wife Leber Ann were the first farmers at West Common Farm. The 1939 register shows the couple were still at the farm and Leber Ann was a volunteer first aider, their daughter, Muriel, aged 18, was working as a shorthand typist.

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  2. Commonside Farm\/Whitemoor Grange<\/strong>

    One of the older Estate farms, Commonside was the location of an anti-aircraft battery and searchlight during the First World War.   This was one of a number of such batteries located in the area which would have most likely been to provide defence against Zeppelin attack on the Gunpowder Magazine\/phosgene shell filling station at Barlby and the airship construction site located over the river at Barlow.

    The farm was bought in 1919 by Alfred Ernest Wetherell, who lived there with his wife Dora and son Alfred. Alfred Ernest was killed in an accident on the farm, aged 67, on 14th February 1944.

    In the 1939 register and OS maps up to 1952 the farm is known as Whitemoor Grange.

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  3. Stud Farm\/Whitemoor Farm<\/strong>

    Another Estate farm, Stud Farm was originally called Whitemoor Farm the name was changed sometime after 1939, presumably to avoid confusion with its renamed neighbour Whitemoor Grange (Commonside Farm) and Whitemoor Farm, Cliffe cum Lund.

    In 1825, George Calvert was the farmer here, when a gas balloon, which had taken off from the Gas Works in York landed on the farm, causing great excitement in the area.

    His son, also George, took over tenancy of the farm on the death of his father in 1851 and it was George jnr who was here when the farm was subject to an arson attack in May 1864. The farm suffered further fires in 1893 and 1907.

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  4. Peartree Farm<\/strong>

    The old farmhouse here predated the 1809 Enclosures map and seems to be shown on Jeffrey’s 1772 map of Yorkshire. Also known as ‘Haller’s Farm’, for many years after the Haller family had left and the farm had been sold. Joseph Haller was born in Burn and is recorded on the 1834 Poll Book as occupying 50 acres of land at Osgodby, by 1851 he was farming 118 acres in Osgodby, assisted by his sons, Thomas, George, William, Joseph and John.

    Joseph put the farm up for sale in October 1857, but it appears no buyer was found on that occasion and Peartree Farm was inherited by his sons on Joseph’s death in 1860, at the age of 80. The sons put the farm up for auction again in July 1864
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  5. Osgodby Grange\/White House Farm<\/strong>

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  6. Home Farm<\/strong>

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  7. Lakeview Farm<\/strong>

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  8. Corner Farm<\/strong>

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  9. Crescent Farm<\/strong>

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  10. Siddal’s Farm<\/strong>

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  11. Tindall’s Farm<\/strong>

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  12. Morritt’s Farm (Wadkin Arms)<\/strong>

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  13. Millfield Farm<\/strong>

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  14. Mill Farm\/Osgodby Windmill<\/strong>

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  15. Bridge Farm<\/strong>

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  16. Becksyke Farm<\/strong>

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  17. Yew Tree Farm<\/strong>


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  18. Croft Farm<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Over the years, there have been 18 farms in and around Osgodby, these have now declined to only 6 working farms. This number doesn’t include the Experimental Fruit Farm, set up by Leeds University. West Common Farm The farmhouse was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.osgodbyvillage.uk\/heritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}