Floyds Farm

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Peter and Ann Floyd. Already at Floyds Farm by 1861 census. There till their deaths - Peter 1924 aged 93. Ann 1929 aged 95

Research by Joan West taken from deeds lent to Rosemary Mortham and personal knowledge from a long standing friendship.

click 1980 Harry Floyd Recalls Dairy Farming for full details of this article published in Hallmark when Harry Floyd, the 3rd 'Floyd' to farm Floyds Farm recalled his memories as a dairy farmer and other farming recollections to Rosemary Mortham

This farm only became known as “Floyd’s Farm” after 1915, when it was purchased by Frederick Floyd.   First known records show that It had belonged to the Manor of Princes Risborough and had been tenanted by a member of the Stone family.   On his death the tenancy had passed to his wife Elizabet

January 5^th 1795.   Elizabeth Stone, widow, married at Princes Risborough with Joshua Dell, born 1757, widower.

Elizabeth Dell, a customary tenant of the Manor of Princes Risborough, gave the premises to her husband Joshua Dell.

Fred Floyd with his mother Ann. Fred inherited Floyds Farm from Ann in 1929

1823. In the enclosures the Commissioners allotted the property to Joshua Dell, freehold.

Joshua let the premises to his brother Thomas Dell for £80 per annum.

By arrangement, Joshua and Elizabeth surrendered the property to the Manor and sold the tenancy to Thomas Tilbury

TENANT. CENSUS 1841

Thomas Tilbury, 60, ag. Lab, born North Dean, Mary Tilbury, 55, Mary, 20.

JOSHUA AND ELIZABETH DELL MOVED TO PARSONAGE FARM, SAUNDERTON

Elizabeth died in 1829, Joshua died in 1842

1843.   IN HIS WILL Joshua bequeathed 6 acres (Floyds Farm), at Lacey Green, late in his own occupancy, now of Thomas Tilbury, to James Dell, his great nephew, late of Stocken Farm, now at Parsonage Farm, Saunderton                  JAMES DELL ALSO INHERITED PARSONAGE FARM, SAUNDERTON. James’s son Thomas became a farmer with his father at the farm.

WILL OF JAMES DELL. James Dell left his son, Thomas, to farm with his widow Elizabeth, for her lifetime, then after her death, the farm to go to Thomas.

TENANT of Floyds Farm CENSUS 1851. Thomas Tilbury, 70, farmer of 6 acres, born North Dean, James Tilbury, nephew, 27, ag. Lab, born Walters Ash, Elizabeth Tilbury, nee Ayres, 25 lacemaker, born Walters Ash, Richard Tilbury , nephew, 3, born Lacey Green.

JUNE 9th 1915. Sale by Auction on behalf of the Executors of Thomas Dell of Parsonage Farm, Saunderton

Schedule. (Floyds Farm) Purchased by Frederick William Floyd for £640: -

Freehold accommodation at Lacey Green, comprising 4 rooms together with 6 acres of arable and grass land, barn, pig styes, stable, and hen houses, let to Mr Peter Floyd, an old standing tenant, at a rental of £15 per annum.   Land tax of 12 shillings and eleven pence.   Researchers note. Peter Floyd, the tenant, was the father of Frederick William Floyd, purchaser.

Harry Floyd, Hilda West & Grandad Crook just outside the kitchen window, Stocken Farm.

Douglas Brett, who lived with his mother from 1923 to 1931 in one of Well Cottages in Church Lane which were owned by Fred Floyd wrote of going to Floyds Farm to help. "At times I went to Fred Floyd’s Farm Dairy.   A large wooden churn was filled with cream which I would turn until converted into butter.   Sometimes I delivered milk." click 1931 Douglas Brett in Lacey Green for more tales from Douglas

Joan West (researcher's) Note. Harry Floyd lodged with Dick and Hilda West at Stocken Farm, almost from the time he inherited Floyd's Farm in 1939. He had gone there when he had bronchitis and Hilda West said he could stay while he recovered. However he continued to live with them until 1971. He still ran his farm but did not live in the cottage. Previously the cottage had been lived in by his father Fred Floyd who was a widower, having inherited it from his parents Peter & Ann Floyd.

In 1981 R M West & Son purchased the farm from Harry Floyd (see below). The pictures below were taken at this time. It seems unlikely that the men put a curtain over the fireplace so perhaps it had been there since the days of Ann and Peter.

FREDERICK WILLIAM FLOYD TO HARRY GEORGE FLOYD. July 13^th1939.   Will of Fred Floyd.  Farm inherited by Harry Floyd

INSURANCE FOR FLOYDS FARM AND GARAGE AT IDLE CORNER. 1940. £540 p.a.      1947. £1,750 p.a.      1951. 3,100 p.a.     Note!  Insurance values, pre and post WW2. The garage at Idle Corner had originally been the coach house of the house “Gracefield”

1952.   Conveyance.  Monica Wendy Haines, commonly known as Monica Wendy Bickford Haines of East Challacombe Farm, Combe Martin, Devon, wife of Percy Thomas Haines SOLD TO Harry George Floyd of Floyds Farm, Lacey Green, for £200, land at Lacey Green, Ord. Survey No. 281, 0.762 acres. Research note. This land was allotment no 687 to Francis Stone in the Enclosures 1823

SUBJECT TO COVENANT. Subject to the right of the owner of Gracefield to discharge sewage water and soil by means of the existing substituted drain into the cesspool, subject to a conveyance made October 10^th 1950, between Norman Basil Smith and Monica Wendy Haines, for the benefit of Gracefield.

HARRY BUYS MORE LAND

August 8^th 1962.   Conveyance.   Harry Floyd purchased land at Lacey Green for £560, from the Rt. Hon. Robert William Evelyn Rockly of City of London

SCHEDULE. 2 pieces of land at Lacey Green, part of Lane Farm, Church Lane, containing 6.984 acres, nos.156 & 280 (ord survey, 1921 edition)

1963   Conveyance.  Bert Ralph George Dell purchased from Harry Floyd, for £100

SCHEDULE. A piece of land, part of Floyd’s Farm, running in a narrow triangle to a point behind “Hickmans Stores” and “Kia Cottage”, for £100.                                 HARRY FLOYD SOLD THE ORIGINAL 6 ACRES OF FLOYDS FARM FOR DEVELOPEMENT

March 5^th 1965   Conveyance.   Harry Floyd sold to James Baldwin, builder, 6 acres of land, bounded on the west by Westlands Road, Lacey Green.

THE DEVELOPMENT. James Baldwin built on the east side of Westlands Road.   (The west side already had established houses.)   Also a new road off Westlands Road, to the east, called “Meadow Rise”.

HARRY FLOYD SOLD MORE LAND TO BERT DELL

April 5^th 1965   Conveyance.  Bert Ralph George Dell purchased from Harry Floyd, a plot of land, next to Hickmans Stores.   The plot was developed later, by Bert’s widow May.   She called it “Honeysuckle Cottage”.

Floyd's Cottage Door and 'Privy'

1981 SALE OF FLOYDS FARM on behalf of HARRY FLOYD. Offers invited for the freehold of OLD COTTAGE AND ATTACHED BARN, Main Road, Lacey Green. Buckinghamshire, situated near to 'Eumana'. A subject for major improvement as two units, with planning permission for residential conversion of the barn.

Cottage with :- Living Room, kitchen, 2 Bedrooms. Barn with :- Approximately 900msq.ft. floor area on one level.

The Existing Cottage offers the following basic accommodation with approximate dimensions :-

Living Room 15 ft x 14 ft.   Kitchen 15 ft x 5 ft. Door to garden.   Bedroom 1. 14 ft x 10 ft  6 ins.  Bedroom 2. 14 ft 6 ins x 10 ft.

Barn of boarded and tiled construction, with: - Approximately 900 sq.ft. floor area, on one level.

Other Buildings. There are a number of other buildings, but they are mainly in very poor condition.

Outline Planning Permission has been granted for the conversion of the existing barn to residential and two garages on land adjoining Eumana, adjacent on the east.

'Services. Main electricity, water and drainage are not connected but are available for connection.   The water supply to a field at the rear of the property being sold must be continued. Researcher's note. This refers to a cess pit used by 'Gracefield

Outgoings. To be assessed

Directions. Find the The Black Horse public house in Lacey Green.  The property is found down the driveway immediately to the right of the Black Horse.

SOLD

1981.   Conveyance.  Harry Floyd sold Floyds Farm to R M West & Son of Stocken Farm for £24,558

R M West & Son retained the land and sold the house and attached barn, retaining a right of way to the land at the rear of the property