Scotland Farm, although within Dry Drayton, is actually some distance to the south west and closer to the village of Hardwick.
This has always been one of the largest farms in the parish. At the beginning of the C19th the farm was largely arable. At the end of the C19th there was an expansion of dairy farming and model dairy premises were built in 1907. Two ponds by the main farmbhouse collected water which was then pumped uphill. twenty-two cottages were built to accommodate farmworkers.
One farmer was Terah Hooley, son of a twice bankrupt multi-millionaire entrepreneur, Ernest Hooley.
1911
John Thomas Jack, 47, farm foreman, b Papworth St Agnes
Mary Ann, 44, b Northants
Henry, 23, farm horse keeper, b Papworth St Agnes
Allen, 13, b Papworth St Agnes
Allen Jack joined up with the Cambridge Volunteer Battalion when he was only 16. He died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1.7.1916.
The farm was bought by William Peck in 1948. Edinburgh Farm became part of Scotland farm and as the farmhouse and buildings were unused they were pulled down around 1950. The farm at the time was mixed with a dairy herd used for milking. In 1958 this was disbanded and a large flock of Suffolk sheep introduced. Then the farm switched to pig farming and by 1972 had become exclusively arable. (See p.76 Gallows Piece to Bee garden)
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