In March 2016 we took ownership of the field and started down a long road of restoration with the aim creating a natural wildlife haven based on a traditional English meadow.

Intensive farming can create a desert-like landscape almost devoid of wildlife. Fortunately the field was soon afterwards abandoned to nature.

Showing the croft (No. 318), with almost exactly the same boundaries as today. Occupied by a Mr Richard Tipton, hence ‘Tipton’s Croft’.