South East Longridge

Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 24 Jul 2022

The roofless row of buildings on the right predate the farmhouse on the left by at least 50 years. A building at the location of the house isn't shown until a 1910s surveyed OS map, so presumably it is the same building still standing. The farm of Easter Longridge sits immediately North of this farm - there is no open land between them - and it wasn't until the house got built here that this farm was given its name. I didn't wander round the yard too much, as this farmyard is at the end of a short dead-end private road (despite what the maps indicate) but I assume, considering how the row is split into small individual buildings, that they weren't originally built for livestock, but for housing farm-workers at Easter Longridge. It's funny how the farm has divided from a bigger one into two smaller ones, against the general trend in agriculture over recent times. Either the proprietor at the turn of the last century was needing money, or it was a family thing and he decided to split the farm to allow two sons to be their own men. I like to think that in this hypothetical (but possible) scenario the two eldest sons were twins, but that's just my mind up to its usual wanderings! Curious all the same though.

Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0