Washing Pool Ground

Washing Pool Ground

A field of Marsh Hill Farm

 

Washing Pool Ground (Parcel 1116) was a field of Marsh Hill Farm (today's Smoke Acre Farm), Yeovil Marsh. The name indicates a former cattle- or sheep-dipping ground.

The 1846 Tithe Apportionment recorded that Washing Pool Ground was owned by Yeovil solicitor William Lambert White and let to James Pope. Pope also farmed the adjoining Pear Tree Farm. Washing Pool Ground was described as pasture for grazing livestock and measured 9a 0r 0p.

In August 1884 Marsh Hill Farm, including Washing Pool Ground, was sold to a Mr Legg. The new tenant was John Trent - who quit the farm in November 1885. The following tenant farmer was a Mr Mead, followed by John Pearce in the latter part of the 1890s and in to the 1900s. During the early 1920s, Marsh Hill Farm was farmed by Mr F R Rendell, who quit the farm in December 1928.

Washing Pool Ground (Parcel 1116) was bounded on the south by Coppice (2) (Parcel 1111) and Marsh Hill Farm's farmhouse and orchard (Parcel 1112), to the west by Hollow Ground (Parcel 1115), to the north by Higher Mead (Parcel 1122), and to the east by Lower Plaines (Parcel 1117) and Long Croft Coppice (Parcel 1110).

 

For details on historic land measurement (ie acres, roods and perches) click here.

 

Map & Aerial Photograph


Today's Smoke Acre Farm, the earlier Marsh Hill Farm, courtesy of Mr Google.

 

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