Speen Kiln Farm

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Research by Joan West

Speen Kiln Farm, later Red House Farm was at Speen. Speen Kiln Farm was for many years owned and run jointly with Kingswood Farm in Lacey Green, with joint sales.

6th Jan 1877 Agreement between Thomas Roger Parsons of Whiteleaf, gent. brewer and William Simmons Witney of Redland End, timber dealer and farmer.

All the land with buildings known as Kingswood Farm, together with Speen Kiln Farm for £6,750. Deposit £500, Completion by 3rd Feb 1877, interest on £6,250 at 4% per annum.

William Simmons Witney also agrees to take the entire live and dead stock and fixtures at a valuation to be made by Mr Ralph Potter Clarke of Kingshill, the cost of valuation to be equally divided between T.R.Parsons and W.S.Witney.

Fixtures at Speen Kiln Farm:-

The horse going gear, machinery with the threshing machine, bean mill, chaff cutter and fixtures

William Simmons Witney to keep the present homestead, now occupied by Samuel Charge open for the sale of malt liquers for 14 years and to purchase all the ale, beer and etc. for consumption therein from Thomas Parsons of Princes Risborough, brewer.

The following information is taken from the Deeds of Red House Farm, formerly known as Speen Kiln Farm, and Kingswood Farm, lent to Dennis Claydon by the family.

6th Jan 1877 CONVEYANCE Thomas Roger Parsons, the vendor. and William Simmons Witney of Redland End, timber dealer and farmer, the purchaser. All the land and buildings known as Kingswood Farm, Lacey Green. Mr Witney agrees to take all live and dead stock and fixtures, being horse going gear, chaff cutter and fixtures on valuation. Sold together likewise with Speen Kiln Farm, (later called Red House Farm), Speen

1877 Sale Inventry and Valuation of Live and deadstock of Speen Kiln Farm and Kingswood Farm, sold together.

INVENTRY and VALUATION of LIVE and DEAD STOCK, CORN, HAY, STRAW, SEED & CULTIVATIONS, ETC of KILN and KINGSWOOD FARMS, SPEEN. JAN 1877   From J R PARSONS, of White Leaf to MR WILLIAM WITNEY of Redland End.

IMPLEMENTS.    2 Strong Iron Arm Waggons in Ladders, 1 Light Ditto & 1 Old Ditto, 4 Iron Arm Dung Carts, 3 Sets of Iron Harrows, Set of Seed Ditto, 2 Iron Ploughs & Tackling,1 Wood Beam Ditto, Horse Hoe, a 9 line Scarify, a 22” Ring Rolls, Wood Roll, Water Barrell, Pulper, 2 Chaff Machines with horse gear, etc, Hayes patent Corn Mill, Horse Power Threshing Machine as fixed, Sack Barrow, 2 seed carts, 3 Corn Bushels, Chaff Baskets, large Rick Cloth, Page’s Cake Crusher, Weighing Machine & weights, 2 Winnowing Machines, Turnips & Corn Drill, a Dress Box etc, 2 8ft Iron Water Troughs, a 2ft Iron ditto, 9 Iron Pig Troughs, 5 Wood ditto, 20 Corn Sacks, 2 Loft Ladders, 2 40-pound Ladders & 6 others, Turnip Cutter & Scuttle, 168 Hurdles & Stakes, 8 Side Stone Staddles & Timbers, 6 Stones & Caps, 2 Wheel Barrows, Zinc Water Tub, 3 Zinc Troughs, 18 Wood Sheep Troughs, 2 Cow Cribs, 4 Iron Drag Harrows, 1 Wood ditto, 5 Barn Shovels, Knee Fan, Hay Knife, Iron Pot and Furnace as fixed, 2 Tressels, 3 Meal & Wash Tubs, Meal Bin, 3 Meal Tubs, Meal Bin, 3 Meal Tubs, 7 Buckets, 2 Bowls, Pair of Yokes, 5 Hooks, 3 Iron Bars, Wimble Thatching Cap, 2 Cow Chains, 4 Iron Shovels, 2 Mattocks, 5 Pitch & Hay Forks, 4 Dung Forks, 2 Drags, 3 Hoes, Baskets, 6 Cart Ropes, 4 Straw Ropes, 2 Pig Nets, sundry Brooms, etc, 3 dozen New Plough Shares, 6 Skim Shares, 2 Plough Wheels, 3 Beds, 4 Rises, 2 pair Jaws, Slide Rake, sundry old Stakes & others, Iron Rick Pegs, 2 Hen Coops, 2 Grease Jacks & Hammers, 6 Nose Bags, 5 sets Shire Harness, 5 sets Cart Chains, 7 sets Plough Harness, 5 pair Plough Reins, 7 Head Halters, 4 Whips, sundry Harness, 2 bins, Hand Barrow, 11 Road Ladder Lanterns, 2 Hemp Halters, 300 loads of Stones.

LIVE STOCK.    18 Fat Hogs, 7 Farm Horses, 8 Starks & Steers, 139 Halfbred Tegs, 35 head of Poultry.

CORN, HAY & STRAW ETC.     The Produce of 32 acres of Wheat, unthrashed & thrashed, 2 Ricks of Waterloo Oats, about 10 bushels W.J. Oats, 53 bushels ditto, threshed, 1 ditto White Tartary Oats, quantity Dun Peas, about 13 bushels Linseed Cake, 2 & half sacks Ground Maize, 2 clamps trussed Hay, 2 Ricks of ditto, 45 trusses of Wheat Straw, Unthrashed Wheat Straw. The sown Corn, etc at Consuming price, 3 clamps of London sweepings, and Manure in heaps.

CULTIVATIONS 25 acres Wheat, 1 plough, 4 harrows, cost of dressing & spreading, drilling, seed & dressing.                                                                              11 acres Turnips & Swedes, folded off. (9 acres 1 plough) 9 acres Swedes to feed off, then plough, 4 harrows, cart dung & spreading, seed & drilling, Bush Sweepings per acre, 1 horse hoe, hand hoeing, pulling & clamping, 2 acres Tares, 1 plough, 4 harrows, seed & Sowing, 32 acres Young Grass, seed & Sowing, 17 acres Wheat & Pea Stubble, 1 plough, 21 acres Wheat & Pea Stubble, 1 plough, 6 acres for Peas, cart & dress.                                                                                                           VALUE                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The foregoing property enumerated in the inventory is valued by the undersigned at the Sum of “Sixteen hundred and forty pounds, ten shillings” (after deducting thrashing and marketing for unthrashed corn)

                               Ralph P Clark, Agricultural Valuer, Ashwell Farm, Kinghill, Great Missenden