Hertfordshire

Callowland Farm, Watford

The farm that once stood where Cecil Street is today.

A history of Callowland Farm on what is now Cecil Street, Watford, from medieval 'bare land' through Merton College tenancy to nineteenth-century farmers such as John Connor. The article traces changing acreage, live-in farm servants, Edwardian allotments, and the farm's disappearance as suburban streets were laid out in the 1890s.

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