Home Farm, Stoke Road

The farm had been sold privately by the Duke of Grafton before the estate
sale in 1919.  Much of the land immediately behind the farmhouse had been
turned over for ironstone mining (1860 - 1900) consequently the ground was
weak.  Mr Erichsen, who moved into Blisworth House in about 1955, bought
the farm and raised pigs.  He found a ready market three doors down the
Stoke Road for his pigs; the Blisworth Bacon Co. Ltd.  The first image here
unsurprisingly shows pigs rooting at the rear of the house.  The second was
probably taken by GF in about 1966 shortly before the house and buildings
were demolished and the land sold, by Erichsen, for development, the new
streets being Buttmead, Eastfield and Home Close.

For many years the farm has been associated with a branch of  the Carter family.
In 1838, the Grafton Survey shows the farm, a mere 5 acres, being let to Joseph
Carter.  Later, censuses also show the farm with the Carters - more detail to come.

                                                                      Photo by courtesy of Amanda Harris

At the time of the 1919 Grafton Sale it was rented by Mr. Asplin (farmer) and it was
his son who eventually sold to Erichsen.