Everyones words for farm in their area?

Nithsdale

Member
Livestock Farmer
I know the Scottish sometimes call them Crofts, etc.


A croft and farm are very different things.

Crofts were, traditionally, a very small parcel of land (with house and byre) not actually big enough for the family to live off of, but they usually had access to communal hill grazing, shared by neighbouring crofts. This would force them to have to take 2nd employment... usually working for their laird. Or theyd go fishing.

Modern crofts are slightly different in that they have a lot more protection, and a tenant is no longer limited to farming just 1 croft
 

glow worm

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Location
cornwall
[QUiTE="solo, post: 5587134, member: 4327"]It is noticeable that many farms in Herefordshire have “court” in their names[/QUOTE]
It is noticable down here, that farms, previously just known by a name, have had 'farm' added to their name when bought by non farming people.
 

Grassman

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Location
Derbyshire
Regarding smallholding my place is on old tenancy agreements as "the holding" as the name.
According to the dictionary a holding is "an area of land held by lease."
Yet a smallholding is described as "an agricultural holding smaller than a farm." No mention of lease.
 

Whitepeak

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Livestock Farmer
The majority in Derbyshire are something Farm, but most locals drop the farm when talking about them, we would be Town Head. There's even a couple of farms locally simply called The Farm.
There's quite a few something Hall Farm or something House Farm. And there's a few Grange's, which I understand is just another word for farm. So it always amused me that a friend was at Grange Farm, which was basically Farm Farm!
I think most of the Staffordshire County Council farms are know as Holdings. And I know of one person in Northumberland who is at Jubilee Buildings. And I've also heard places refered to as steadings.
A lot in NI are just numbers and the road, and don't have farm names like we do over here.
 

Macsky

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Highland
A croft is a parcel of generally tenented land in a "crofting" (Highlands and Islands) area a small holder although some crofts are up to 2000 acres due to the nature of the land. A croft had special laws which protect the tenant after the land raids of the Western Isles in the C19th.
It can be owned but has to be de crofted before sold for developmentor or built on. I have little knowledge and I am sure others can explain it better.

Cottars were similar to crofters but were small farmers in the non crofting areas where central belt of Scotland. Now classified as smallholders.

Cheers BB

The most exact definition is:
‘A croft is a small parcel of land, surrounded by legislation’ [emoji23]
 

AndrewM

Member
BASIS
Location
Devon
Barton, Old English bere-tūn, from bere ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosed piece of land, homestead, village
grange
Middle English (in the sense ‘granary, barn’): from Old French, from medieval Latin granica (villa) ‘grain house or farm’, based on Latin granum ‘grain’.
 

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