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HEATH ROW FARM : HEATH ROW : MIDDLESEX, RECTORY FARM : HESTON : MIDDLESEX, TWO BRIDGE...

Catalogue reference: MID 1

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This record is about the HEATH ROW FARM : HEATH ROW : MIDDLESEX, RECTORY FARM : HESTON : MIDDLESEX, TWO BRIDGE... dating from 1894-1936.

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Reference

MID 1

Title

HEATH ROW FARM : HEATH ROW : MIDDLESEX, RECTORY FARM : HESTON : MIDDLESEX, TWO BRIDGE FARM : HARMONDSWORTH : MIDDLESEX

Date

1894-1936

Description

Records relating to farms in Middlesex

Arrangement

1 CATALOGUES

2 CROPPING BOOKS

3 LABOUR BOOKS

4 LEDGERS

5 REPORTS

Held by
Museum of English Rural Life
Language

English

Creator(s)
<famname>Curtis family of Middlesex</famname>
Physical description

5 series

Immediate source of acquisition

Presented by H. Curtis, on permanent loan 1965 December 8 (Acc. no. 315)

Administrative / biographical background

The donor's grandfather, who claimed to have come from Beccles, co. Suffolk to co. Middlesex in about 1840 as a hay dealer, farmed successively at Feltham and Bedfont, co. Middlesex. The donor's father (the W.J. Curtis of these accounts) began farming at Heath Row with £300 in about 1890.

He bought Heath Row Farm in 1917 but because of labour problems, had to rent it out, until his son (H. Curtis) took over the farm in 1925. From 1920-1925, H Curtis had farmed with his brother at Rectory Farm, Heston. Heath Row was sold to the Air Ministry in 1944

Farm size etc.

Heath Row - 150 acres, medium loam on gravel. Occupiers were tenants to the Hunt family until 1917, when W.J. Curtis bought 75 acres for £7, 500. The farm was a large market garden concern

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/02763c20-0582-40a9-bce6-46131a261303/

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HEATH ROW FARM : HEATH ROW : MIDDLESEX, RECTORY FARM : HESTON : MIDDLESEX, TWO BRIDGE FARM : HARMONDSWORTH : MIDDLESEX