1770 Mantles Hole Robert Burrows establishes the first farm on the site called Mantles Hole.
1796 Mantles Hole William Pitt.  Farmhouse extended.
1820 Mantles Hole

John Ward.  Extended the Farmhouse and it is believed that he had Decimus Burton re-plan the buildings around a central courtyard. Changes included kitchen storerooms, indoor lavatory and attic bedrooms.

1832 New Farmhouse A map was published with the the name of the farm as "New farmhouse and buildings"
1841 Holwood Farm Census records Henry Bowen,47, Farmer, With wife Hannah, 50 and daughters Emily 13, and Mary 11, with 1 servant.
1851 Holwood Farm Henry Bowen was still living at the farm with a record "300 acres employing 20 laboureres at harvest about 60"
1851   Sale of Holwood Park, lot 5 records "An enclosed Farm Yard, with Barn, stabling, Cattle Sheds, cowhouses, piggeries, granary, poultry-houses, and other various Farm Buildings, most substantially built".
1871   Census John Buckle, 46, born Peterborough, was living at Holwood Farmhouse, Farms 270 acres employs 7 men and 1 boy, with his wife Catherine, 44, 3 children and 2 servants.
1881   John Buckle was still at the farm.
1891   David Batten, Carpenter, and his family.
1908   On the death of the 16th Earl of Derby, his wife asked John "Farmer" Wilson to look after the 1000 acre Holwood Estate.   John moved into the house with his wife.  Their daughter Hannah Wilson was born in 1911.
1911   Extra building attached to the Byre build to house expansion of herd.
1920's   Hannah Wilson recalled "the cows we had 12 pedigree Jerseys, because Constance Lady Derby, liked rich creamy milk and cream.  A darymaid churned milk and produced  little butter pats stamped with the Derby crest".
1930's   Southern Railway planned a railway line from Orpington which would have cut through Holwood Farm, the plans were abandoned in 1937.
1939   Lady Stanley held an auction of "Valuable Live and Dead Farming Stock".
1939   Alex Howie became a tenant of Holwood Farm, employing 11 farm workers and 2 Land Army girls.
1951   Alex Howie bought the farm when the Estate was broken up.
1963   Atcost barn built to replace a fire damaged barn.
1960's -1970's   The farm prospered with the milking herd increased to 150 cows.  more milk quota was purchaed, wheat and barley sold well.
2006

 

Jean (Alex's daughter) and husband Malcolm Chamberlain continued to run the farm until October 2006, when their son moved with the dairy herd and the machinery to a new farm in Cornwall.    The land was sold and has now been broken into small plots.
2009   Gary Mercer and Sarah Clout bought the derelict farm buildings : stables, dairy, haybarn, yellow barn, byre and Atcost barn.
2010   Conversion into 3 houses and a farm shop begins.
2011   The Atcost Barn and the Haybarn are demolished.
2012 Mantles Cottage Conversion of the Stables is completed and renamed 1 Mantles Cottage, Holwood Farm.
2012 Yellow Barn Conversion of Grain Barn is completed, Renamed Yellow Barn, Holwood Farm and Opened as a Farm Shop and a Coffee Shop
2013 Mantles Cottage Conversion of the Dairy/Milking Parlour is completed and renamed 2 Mantles Cottage, Holwood Farm.
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