Discover the vintage farm machinery…Visit the historic working farm…Meet the farmyard animals… Feed the free-roaming chickens and ducks…
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No public access
Dock
Copse
No public
access
Public Footpath
Dockdell
Copse
Accessible toilets
Kings Copse
Meadow
Accessible toilets
Toilets
Car park
Toilets
Longmead
Park boundary
Play area
Public bridleway
Permissive horse riding route
Picnic area
No public access
Family BBQ
Play area
Park boundary
Picnic area
Public bridleway
Permissive horse riding route
Family BBQ
Easy access trail
Walking trail
Information
Car park
Tea rooms
Viewpoint
Fosters
Copse
Barnfield
Bottom
Copse
Hoe Moor
Copse
Sandpit
Copse
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Brick barn
18th
In the C
, carts loaded with corn, destined for
threshing on the central floor, would have entered
the great doors of this fine timber and brick barn.
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Orchard
Planted in 1990, the farmhouse orchard was carefully
planned to include fruit varieties that could be
preserved and stored for the winter months. Look out
for old varieties such as the ‘Beauty of Bath’ apple.
Tractor trail
Our vintage tractors and farm machinery show how
20.th
rapidly things changed during the first half of the C
By the 1930s horses had been widely replaced.
nimal fields
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Find traditional breeds such as Hampshire Down
and Dorset Horn amongst the cattle, sheep and
pigs in the fields.
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hepherd’s hut
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Shepherd’s huts were common on the Hampshire
19th when flocks of sheep were kept
Downs in the C
far from the farm, but had to be tended daily.
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Outdoor pigs
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ickyard
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Hay and corn brought in from the fields was stored
in stacks or ‘ricks’ and thatched to make them
weatherproof.
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oultry pens
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The pens in the rickyard provide homes for
several breeds of hen, bantam and turkey.
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Wash house and privy
An early Edwardian ‘off the shelf’ washroom and
toilet, these buildings originally stood in a garden in
Longparish and were in use up until the 1960s.
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addock cart shelter
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This building originally stood at
Floods Farm near Stratfield Saye.
It was rescued and re-erected
here in 1997.
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Bottom
Copse
Vantage
Copse
Entrance
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nderson shelter
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Air raid shelters such as this were a common feature
of many a 1940s wartime garden.
Claypit
Copse
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Scout Centre
ottage garden
C
Cottage gardens provided fresh fruit, vegetables
and herbs to the Victorian household.
Toilet
Disabled toilet
Café
The privy
Until quite recently, outside toilets were part of
everyday life in the countryside. The buckets were often
emptied around the fruit bushes!
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Foo tpat
Catland
Copse
Viewpoint
Dog
Exercise
Field
To Hedge End
Pontoon
Easy access trail
Walking trail
Toplands
Tea rooms
Pub lic
Information
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ictorian schoolroom
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Manor Farm
and cottage
Country Park
A faithful re-creation of
a typical late Victorian
rural schoolroom
complete with cane
and dunce’s cap.
The cottage was
one of the main
filming locations
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for the BBC
programme
‘Wartime
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Farm’.
armhouse
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Built in the
1400s, the
farmhouse’s
medieval origins
can still be seen
today despite
many alterations
and additions.
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Milking stall
This simple parlour has one of the earliest powered
milking machines.
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Sheep fold
When sheep are lambing or
just need to be kept close at
hand, these farmyard pens
are easy to move.
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Thatched barn
This impressive timber-framed building, built in the late
1500s was used to store and thresh corn.
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Longstock barn
This barn was moved here from Longstock in 1984.
Like the Granary it sits on mushroom-shaped staddle
stones to keep grain vermin-free.
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Wheelwright’s workshop
The wheelwright provided an essential service in the
rural community, producing and maintaining, amongst
other things, the farm’s carts and wagons. This building
was moved here from Nether Wallop in 1983.
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ig sties
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Hens and pigs were
kept close to the
farmhouse so the
farmer’s wife could
feed them scraps
and collect eggs
from the hens.
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Built on staddle
stones with a loft above, this
building would have kept grain and
animal feed dry and safe from vermin.
Play area
Cart shelter
Probably dating from the late 1700s, both ends were
originally open to allow easy access for the farm’s carts
and wagons.
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Handwash point
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Stable
The stable dates from the 1700s. Feed would have been
stored in the hayloft. Heavy horses were bred here for
Southampton City Council just before WW11.
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he pond
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Fed by rainwater, the farm pond is mentioned in the
Domesday Book of 1086. It provides a home for our
ducks and the occasional moorhen and coot.
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Blacksmith’s forge
The blacksmith too was an important figure
in rural life, shoeing horses and manufacturing a wide
variety of tools. This forge was moved here from
Hedge End in 1986.
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t Bartholemew’s Church
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The chancel is all that remains of this C
church which, until the 1800s, was the
parish church of Botley.