A meeting of the Red Poll Cattle Breeders Society
at Barnham Court in about 1950.
The Farm
Around the Farm - Then and Now
Barnham Court Farm
The largely arable farm grows wheat for making bread, oil-seed rape for crushing into oil for fuel and peas for Birdseye frozen food. It is on the very fertile deep soil of the coastal plain. Sheep graze the low Brook fields in the winter months.
The Farmyard is based around Barnham Court and the Church of St Mary The Virgin. There has been a settlement on this slightly raised ground for a very long time, early on this was monastic. The Church is ancient and the heavy buttresses of its walls were built in Saxon times around the tenth century before the Norman invasion of 1066. Barnham Court is an elegantly built red brick house with a dozen impressive chimneys. It was built around 1640 during the Civil War and is now listed as a Grade I historic house.
