East Meon estates

Lot 16, Agricultural and Sporting estate, Hyden and Coombe Woods

South Farm and Lower Farm, inc mill

Map of Lot 16 (top)

Map of Lot 16 (bottom)

Lot 16 continued, Lower Farm House, including Old Moat

Freehold sporting manor, Hyden Farm, Coombe Wood and Hyden Wood

Hyden Farm 'The House' (George Cannings, £85)

At the same auction, estates and farms in the parish of East Meon were also sold. Prominent is the Agricultural and Sporting Estate of 530 acres, comprising Hyden and Coombe Woods, as well as three important farms to the south of East Meon village, South Farm, 576 acres, Lower Farm, 257 acres, and Hyden Farm, 85 acres. It is notable that this sale took place at the time when farmers from Cumbria had settled in much of the Meon Valley. Click here for an account of this migration. (George Atkinson, the progenitor of the Atkinson family which has farmed at South and Lower Farms ever since, is mentioned as the tenant of South Farm, at the ’low rent’ of £291.)