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SANTON FARM : PRESTON : CO. KENT

Catalogue reference: KEN 9

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This record is about the SANTON FARM : PRESTON : CO. KENT dating from 1886-1964.

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Reference
KEN 9
Title
SANTON FARM : PRESTON : CO. KENT
Date
1886-1964
Description

Records relating to Stanton Farm, Preston, Kent

Arrangement

1 CORRESPONDENCE

2 BOOKS OF ACCOUNT

3 LEASES

4 MAPS

5 PASS BOOKS

6 PHOTOGRAPHS

7 SUNDRY PAPERS

Held by
Museum of English Rural Life
Language
English
Creator(s)
<famname>Solly family of Preston, Kent</famname>
Physical description
7 series
Immediate source of acquisition

Presented 1966 July 29 by S.W. Solly, (Acc. no. 305)

Administrative / biographical background

The donor's family have been established farmers for many years. His father farmed at Manston, co. Kent until the end of the First World War. The donor himself began poultry and fruit farming on 38 acres at Wingham co. Kent and occupied Santon Farm in 1928. He survived the depression and made money from poultry and broccoli seeds. His reclamation of marshland and poor pasture at the lower end of his farm was of some importance. The history of this activity is recorded in correspondence and a series of large farm maps prepared for Wye College, co. Worcester

Farm size etc.

153 acres; medium loam-alluvial soils; owner-occupier

Record URL
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SANTON FARM : PRESTON : CO. KENT