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<blockquote data-quote="Frank-the-Wool" data-source="post: 8037197" data-attributes="member: 699"><p>I wouldn't lose any sleep over what people are prepared to pay for land in odd places.</p><p>I drive by a 5 acre field that is between blocks of land I own and farm. My Grandmother bought it in 1927 for £120 and then my Father sold it after the war to a neighbour for £180 when he needed to buy some other land. He always reckoned it was the worst field in the area.</p><p></p><p>Ironically he bought it back when the neighbour sold up in the 1960's and bought a 200 acre farm without the farmhouse but a pair of cottages for £70k, sold off the cottages for £20k and the 5 acre field for £1500.</p><p></p><p>Two years ago the 5 acre field came up for sale again and was sold for £75k. A couple have bought it and are planting trees etc in it, all without grants. It would not surprise me if one day I bought it back again for £25k.</p><p>We have a lot of land in the Weald that has grown trees, been cleared and farmed and then put back to trees!! Hundreds of acres were planted with Sweet Chestnut for Hop Poles, timber for building and of course fencing posts and stakes in the Middle Ages.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frank-the-Wool, post: 8037197, member: 699"] I wouldn't lose any sleep over what people are prepared to pay for land in odd places. I drive by a 5 acre field that is between blocks of land I own and farm. My Grandmother bought it in 1927 for £120 and then my Father sold it after the war to a neighbour for £180 when he needed to buy some other land. He always reckoned it was the worst field in the area. Ironically he bought it back when the neighbour sold up in the 1960's and bought a 200 acre farm without the farmhouse but a pair of cottages for £70k, sold off the cottages for £20k and the 5 acre field for £1500. Two years ago the 5 acre field came up for sale again and was sold for £75k. A couple have bought it and are planting trees etc in it, all without grants. It would not surprise me if one day I bought it back again for £25k. We have a lot of land in the Weald that has grown trees, been cleared and farmed and then put back to trees!! Hundreds of acres were planted with Sweet Chestnut for Hop Poles, timber for building and of course fencing posts and stakes in the Middle Ages. [/QUOTE]
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