Culverton Farm

Culverton Farm
Construction Era	1600-1699, 1823 Enclosures Record
Type of Property	Farm, Cottage, Land
Use of Property	Business
Locations	Loosley Row

MANOR FARMS SOLD

John Grubb, of Horsenden, the Lord of the Manor of Princes Risborough, was in financial difficulty and from about 1808 onwards he sold to Lord George Henry Cavendish, later Lord Burlington, most of the Manor Farms including Culverton Farm, Row Farm (Wardrobes), Brimmers Farm, Old House, and Stocking Farm, all in the Upper Hamlets.   They were all tenanted.    Lord Cavendish never lived locally and all the farms continued to be tenanted.   By about 1840 he had sold all of them.

MERTON COLLEGE

Culverton Farm was purchased by Merton College of Oxford and the farm continued to be let.

TENANTS

1841 CENSUS

Thomas Grace, 60, Sarah 55, Thomas, 20, Ann, 20, James 15, Rebecca, 15, Kathrine, 15, Mary, 10.

1851 CENSUS

John Eggleton, 65, farmer of 296 acres, employing 6 men, Ellen, nee Tapping, 49.    see wiki person. John & Ellen Eggleton.

1861 CENSUS

Ellen Eggleton, 59, widow of John, farmer, 606 acres, 20 men, 9 boys, George, son, farm steward.

1871 CENSUS

Joseph Eggleton, 38, son of John and Ellen, farmer, 700 acres, 17 labourers, 9 boys, Eliza, 39, born Great Missenden, 5 children

1881 CENSUS

Joseph Eggleton 48, farmer 635 acres, 15 men, 8 boys, Eliza 49, 4 children, 1 grandchild.

1891 CENSUS

Joseph Eggleton 58 farmer, Eliza 59, John, son 34, Wilfred East, 13, g.son, Gertrude Oauling 12, g.Daughter.

1901 CENSUS

Eliza Eggleton, widow of Joseph, farmer, son John, 44, single

1911 CENSUS

John Eggleton, 54, farmer, Mary Jane, 44, wife, married 1907

SUMMARY of EGGLETON TENANTS

John and Ellen Eggleton had leased Culverton Farm by 1851.   John died in 1855.   Ellen and son George ran it from 1855 to 1861.   Son Joseph ran the farm from then on until 1897, Joseph’s widow Eliza had to 1905, employing son John, In 1905 John took over.   Throughout this time Culverton Farm had been owned by Merton College and been leased by the various members of the Eggleton family.

NOTE

See more about John and Ellen Eggleton’s family under “wiki. Person John & Ellen Eggleton”

See more of the Eggleton family under “Wiki. Property Wardrobes Farm.”

1945 TENANTS

27^th September 1945.   The tenants of Culverton Farm were Messrs C.A. and B.H. Garner and Miss V.L. Garner, on a yearly Michaelmas tenancy, apportioned rental £287 per annum.

PURCHASE

28^th September 1945.   Messrs Charles Aubrey and Bertie Harold Garner and Miss Violet Lily Garner, the tenants, purchased Culverton Farm for £700.

NOTE

Charles Aubrey, 1854-1930, Bertie Harold, 1878-1974, and Violet Lily, 1885-1970 were siblings, trading as Messrs C.A.and B.H.Garner, although Charles Aubrey had already died.

CATALOGUE. CULVERTON FARM.  SALE BY AUCTION.  28^th SEPTEMBER 1945   FOR  MERTON COLLEGE, OXFORD

An excellent dairying and mixed farm of about 331acres, 3 roods 28 poles, with suoerior modernised farmhouse and ample buildings; four cottages near the homestead and a pair of modern cottages, being nos.1 and 2 Icknield Way in O.S. no 460.

The farm is intersected by the Princes Risborough – Wycombe Road in which main water is laid and main electricity is available.

FARMHOUSE

The farmhouse is built of brick, flint and stucco faced, with blue slated roof and contains the following. :-

Entrance Hall with wood block floor and fireplace (21 ft by 12 ft); Cloak Room; Dining Room with brick fireplace and serving hatch (19 ft by 13 ft); Breakfast Room (16 ft by 13 ft) with modern fireplace; Kitchen with sink (h & c) with “Herald” range and “Ideal” boiler giving domestic hot water supply; Dairy, etc.   Five good bedrooms; Bathroom (h & c) and separate W.C.

MAIN ELECTRIC LIGHT. . . . . . . MAIN DRAINAGE. . . . . . . TELEPHONE CONNECTED. . . . . . . MAIN WATER AVAILABLE

FARM

The farm buildings include:   Range of brick, flint and tiled Loose Boxes (the partitions, mangers and hay racks belong to the tenant);   Cart-Horse stable for 5; Chaff House; brick and blue-slated building comprising Garage and Oil Store with Loft over; Cooling Shed; Smithy; 5-bay brick and tiled Implement Shed; 9-bay galvanised Dutch Barn; range of brick, timber and galvanised buildings affording accommodation for 50 cows, with Fodder Store; brick and slated and part tiled Cow House for 29.   On the north side of the main yard is a range is a range of flint, timber and tiled Loose Boxes, the fronts, doors and partitions of which belong to the tenant.   The Loose Boxes in the centre of the cattle yard, a timber and galvanised Store near the cooling house, detached timber store near the Dutch barn and about half the cow-house fittings also belong to the tenant.

WATER SUPPLY

The water supply is from a well by electric pump to a storage tank in the farm-buildings, and thence by gravitation to house and yard.

FIELDS

1945 SALE DETAILS OF FIELDS OF CULVERTON FARM
o.s.no	field name	buildings	arable	pasture	total
256	Bottom Field		21.315
pt.258	Long Hand Furlong		24.224
pt 424	Shootacre Bank			12.708
pt 431	Musselwells			2.424
437	Parishes Hill			9.888
438	Upper & Lower Hog Troughs			41.142
pt 439	Ten acres			27.421
440	The Leys			2.564
443	Orchard			0.422
pt 444	House, buildings & 4 cottages	3.145
445	Back Meadow			4.418
446	Bennels Close & Whites Close			9.222
pt 446a	Bennels Close & Whites Close			8.534
pt 447	Back Sides			31.231
pt 448	Old Stream Bed	0.125
460	The Furlong			27.618
462	Ball Piece			23.742
467	Long Hedge & Barbers Pits			35.384
58	Sixteen & Eleven Acres		39.575
59			5.856
461	Pyrtle Wood & Springe	0.968
	TOTAL	4,238	90.97	236.718	331.926

DEATH

Bertie Harold Garner died in 1974.

AUBREY GARNER

Bertie’s son Aubrey Edward lived and ran Culverton Farm until he died in 1995.  Aubrey’s widow continued to live in the farmhouse and the land was let to R.M. West & Son of Stocken Farm.