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Millennium sign |
The
Stanton on the Wolds millennium sign was erected a t the corner of Browns
Lane and Stantton Lane with donations from local businesses.
At the beginning of the twentieth
century the village was an agricultural community and most of the community
worked on the farms. These tenant farms were part of the Widmerpool Estate
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There were several farms with their farmhouses near the church where the medieval village grew up and became deserted as a result of Tudor enclosure for sheep farming. The farmhouse of Glebe Farm adjoined the Rectory. The old manor house had become the farmhouse of Manor Farm until it was abandoned in 1934 for a new, less damp house near the corner of Browns Lane and Stanton Lane. The old house has been converted into a barn.
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Manor Barns |
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Laurel Farm |
Major Robertson died in 1924 and his nephew who inherited his estate sold the land at Stanton to Thomas Towle of Loughborough. He sold off building plots and gradually, until the final sale in 1977 of the old Manor Farm and Laurel Farm, the tenant farmers with their mixed dairy and arable farms were replaced by owner-occupier farmers. Much of the land belonging to the old Manor Farm became part of a new farm, called Thurlby Farm, with a new farmhouse built on Thurlby Lane.
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| The farm on Browns Lane in front of the church, now called Laurel Farm, was previously known as Stanton Farm. Davd McLaren, the father of Leslie McLaren (who is interviewee 8 in this oral history project) once farmed there, and Alfred Bonser, the husband of Hylda Bonser (interviwee 4) was his stockman and lived with his family in Laurel Farm Cottage. Page's Lodge behind the church became the Stanton on the Wolds Golf Club. |
Furlong House |
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Hill Farm |
There were three
outlying farms: Stanton Lodge on Thurlby Lane and Hill Farm and Bankl
Farm on the Melton Road.
There is now only one working farm at Stanton belonging to the Hinchley family, who are agricultural contractors. Their farm is called Hill Farm, and the farmhouse was once tied cottages, where Hylda Bonser (interviewee 4) once lived. The old farmhouse and farmyard with just one field was sold separately, and is now called Highthorne Lodge. |
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Buildings at Hill Farm |
Highthorne Lodge |
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Most of the land belonging to Bank Farm has now been incorporated in Hill Farm and the farmhouse is now occupied by John Brooks, a cattle transporter and brother of Geoff Brooks (interviewee 9). The land belonging
to the other farms is farmed by owners or contractors, who live outside
the village.
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Bank Farm |
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Published by Sandra Ford August 2001 Email: sandrafordwolds@yahoo.co.uk
Last updated 28 August, 2002
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Full
transcripts and audio recordings of the interviews are available
through the Nottinghamshire County Libraries and the Nottingham City Libraries. |
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