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Colin & Sylvia Hicks Collection.
Rear view of The Manor (Manor Farm). I love this photo. In the old days there would have been many sheep here in the village. Documents refer to a “sheepwalk” but I do not know what or where this is. After the Black Death when labour was in short supply and expensive, land was grassed for sheep and wool production. This is the reason that the Conservation Area exhibits ridge and furrow to this day. We know from Den Harradine that during the war his dad grazed the Manor Farm shire horses on the Manor Farm paddocks after a hard day’s work so these field were never ploughed up (which happened all over England in the rush to produce food.) Ivan Cooke gave me photos of the shire horses still working on Manor Farm in the 1950’s when George Law was Farm Foreman.