Oughtonhead Farmhouse
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Oughtonhead Farmhouse by John Lucas as part of the Geograph project.
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Oughtonhead Farmhouse
Image: © John Lucas Taken: 20 Sep 2006
A glimpse of the farmhouse from the adjacent public path. The house was built for William Lucas in 1846. Its purpose was to accommodate the Oughtonhead Farm Baliff at the time that the Lucas family had consolidated its farming holdings in the Oughtonhead and Gaping Hills area. The family had started to acquire farmland around Hitchin from 1736 but at that time the land was managed under the open field system with many scattered pieces. Various enclosure acts allowed the family to form more efficient contiguous field blocks and by the 1840s they were in a position to develop Oughtonhead as a single farm.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.953252
Longitude
-0.307183