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POOL FARM : PURITON : CO. SOMERSET

Catalogue reference: SOM 3

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This record is about the POOL FARM : PURITON : CO. SOMERSET dating from 1879, 1911 - 1940.

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Reference
SOM 3
Title
POOL FARM : PURITON : CO. SOMERSET
Date
1879, 1911 - 1940
Description

Farm account book, account analysis books, milk production register, valuation

Arrangement

Summary of classes

1 BOOKS OF ACCOUNT

2 REGISTERS

3 VALUATIONS

Held by
Museum of English Rural Life
Language
English
Physical description
3 series
Immediate source of acquisition

Presented on permanent loan 1966 January 11 by W.R. Hanham per National Agricultural Advisory Service, Bristol, co. Gloucester

(Acc no 354)

Administrative / biographical background

Pool Farm has now (1966 June) been split up and built over. Only the farm house is at present owned by the donor's family. The donor, son of a carpenter and builder and the grandson of W.C. House, is a student at Reading University

Farm size etc.

In 1911 about 154½ acres ; owner occupied

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/abea8100-f8a0-4011-ad87-4a7a563ab767/

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POOL FARM : PURITON : CO. SOMERSET