HILL FARM, THURLBEAR

Sixsmith Map 1957

View from Mount Pleasant towards Winterwell, showing Hill Farm, Hill Cottage, and the Four Apostles. photograph: alanprime2001

In 1947 Mr and Mrs Coles took over Hill Farm from Walter Quick who had been there since the beginning of the century. Mr. Coles came from a farm in Norton Fitzwarren, his wife came into the county as a landgirl. They run the 67 acres with the help of a student from a Farm Institute. Their lease states that the farm is in Orchard Portman, but this is because for civil purposes the two parishes have been combined under the name of Orchard Portman. The ecclesiastical parish boundary between the two is still Broughton Brook. Source: A History of Thurlbear. R. A. Sixsmith. (1957).

The three daughters of Anita and Michael Callow. Front is Victoria, back left is Clare with Georgina on the right. Georgina is now Mrs Trevor Lock of Badger Street. Photograph at Hill Farm circa 1979 Photograph courtesy of the Callow family.

Above: Wilfred and Francis Callow with children, Michael, John and Mary. Date: Above: Wilfred and Francis Callow and Michael and Mary with Ern Watts (farm worker) Date: 1952.

Wilfred and Francis Callow at Netherclay Farm. Date: Photographs provided by Mike and Anita Callow February 2002.