Smallgains Farm
Stories and pictures of Smallgains Farm
From Dowd's Cyclopaedia:-
derivation : typical derogatory name used generally by farmers to plead poverty; orig called New Land; history : an un-named area on the 1700 map consisted of Low Marsh & other land added by Richard Harrison - ltr more by Daniel Nash. Tenanted by the Morley family in 1851, along with Wreckhall Farm; 1881 res.: the Murrays. Flooded in 1897 & sold to Hester that year: he stayed on here after his 1905 bankruptcy for another 6 years