Mill Farm Field

Mr Cecil Dyball surveying a harvested field on Mill Farm. The farmhouse can be seen top right.

Mill Farm – Cecil Dyball Diaries

Donated by Mr Dyball’s son Jeffery, these nine diaries from 1952-1980 are a description of farming methods, both arable (barley, oats, wheat, sainfoin, beet) and livestock (cattle,sheep, and chickens), weather conditions and the life of a farming family of the...

Mill Farm Print

Print, artist unknown, of Mill Farm built around 1840 by a corn miller named Josiah Livings. The mills were demolished in the early 1900s due to the advent of the railways which caused a downturn in flour production.  The premises were used as farm buildings and the...

Church Street – Old Vicarage

Photo of the Old Vicarage, Church Street clearly showing the pargetting above the front window and the iron supports on the side.

Church Street – Old Vicarage

Photograph of the Old Vicarage, Church Street taken in1933 looking north. The date 1692 can be found on the plasterwork on the side of the building, although the building dates from before then and may have been the original Manor House. There have been two ghost...