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SP 018000 69200
Seafield Lane, Beoley, Redditch B98 9BX
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BROCKH1LL FARM in 1900 was the centre of a thriving dairy business which had been built up by brothers Joseph and Thomas Cash, then in their sixties.
Between the wars they introduced a bottling plant and developed an extensive milk round using a van and two electrically driven milk floats which were recharged at night and were used to deliver milk around the new Batchley Estate.
Following the sale of the Hewell Estates land and properties in 1946, Brockhill was one of the farms acquired by Joe Beckett, in addition to the Home farm at Hewell
Joe Beckett kept Brockhill Farm until 1966, when he sold it to William Tolley and the farm covered 290 acres. Of this, 38 acres of woodland were sold to Harris Brush Works for timber for brush handles A consortium of ten, including Keith Tolley, bought back the woodland and to be able to use it for pheasant shoots, which took place about six times during the winter season.
In the late 1980s and in the 1990s, with large milking and beef herds, extra pasturage was needed. Fields were rented from Dial House Farm, Dusthouse Farm and Caspidee Farm; these in addition to 98 acres of Oxleasowes Farm, still used, bringing the total area then in use to over 500 acres.
In the year 2000 the decision was made to end many years of dairy farming at Brockhill. The milking herd was sold off and the farming limited to 200 acres arable (wheat, barley and oil-
In 1990 two small artificial lakes were created, near the farmhouse off Brockhill Lane, by widening and damming the natural valley, the source of water being a natural spring. This enabled the start of a fishery which is very successful and paid for its creation within two years.
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BROCKH1LL FARM in 1900 was the centre of a thriving dairy business which had been built up by brothers Joseph and Thomas Cash, then in their sixties.
Between the wars they introduced a bottling plant and developed an extensive milk round using a van and two electrically driven milk floats which were recharged at night and were used to deliver milk around the new Batchley Estate.
Following the sale of the Hewell Estates land and properties in 1946, Brockhill was one of the farms acquired by Joe Beckett, in addition to the Home farm at Hewell
Joe Beckett kept Brockhill Farm until 1966, when he sold it to William Tolley and the farm covered 290 acres. Of this, 38 acres of woodland were sold to Harris Brush Works for timber for brush handles A consortium of ten, including Keith Tolley, bought back the woodland and to be able to use it for pheasant shoots, which took place about six times during the winter season.
In the late 1980s and in the 1990s, with large milking and beef herds, extra pasturage was needed. Fields were rented from Dial House Farm, Dusthouse Farm and Caspidee Farm; these in addition to 98 acres of Oxleasowes Farm, still used, bringing the total area then in use to over 500 acres.
In the year 2000 the decision was made to end many years of dairy farming at Brockhill. The milking herd was sold off and the farming limited to 200 acres arable (wheat, barley and oil-
In 1990 two small artificial lakes were created, near the farmhouse off Brockhill Lane, by widening and damming the natural valley, the source of water being a natural spring. This enabled the start of a fishery which is very successful and paid for its creation within two years.
Source: A Hundred Years In Tardebigge – The Revd Alan White
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