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.