very brief history of paul's farm

The farm lies on the most westerly tip of the Chiltern hills overlooking the Ver river valley. (The Roman city of Verulanium, now called St.Albans after the first English Christian martyr, lies six miles away).

Archeologists have discovered a few Celtic and bronze age artifacts along with the much more common roman material.

The farmhouse is surrounded by the earthworks of a deserted medieval village.

William Cobbet rode through the farm in the nineteenth century on one of his rural rides.

Two world wars and dutch elm disease have depleted the farm of mature trees . We have been replanting over the last fifteen years.

My family has been farming in this area since the mid sixteenth century.

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