Written by Peter Brooker including some detail his father, Albert Brooker, had put together for an article in the Tollerton News in 1994. My father, Albert Brooker came from a…
Category: Farms
There are two distinct differences between Russell’s Farm and the other former Tollerton Hall Estate farms. One is its location being somewhat detached from the old village and all the…
by Barbara Storrie (née Blackburn) 2020 OWNERSHIP I have known the farmhouse from the 1950s up to 2009. Parts of Hall Farm house, I believe, dates back to c1600. Research…
Visit to Chestnut Farm undertaken by Barbara Storrie and Liz Fradd on Thursday 21st November 2019 A survey taken by the WI in 1975 stated that Chestnut Farm was built…
Pacy/Pacey, Leeson and Kettleburn are all old Tollerton family names dating back to the late 1600s. All these families were referred to in Sidney Potter’s ‘A History of Tollerton’ published…
Those who have purchased a copy of the history group’s book (‘Tollerton: A Village History’) will have seen that delightful poem about the village written by Frank Joseph Plowright. Some…