Blanchman's Farm

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Blanchman's Farm
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Blanchman's Farm
TypeLocal Nature Reserve
LocationWarlingham, Surrey
OS grid TQ 359 580
Area9.4 hectares (23 acres)
Managed byBlanchman‟s Farm Committee and the Downlands Countryside Project

Blanchman's Farm is a 9.4-hectare (23-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Warlingham in Surrey. It is owned by Tandridge District Council and managed by the Blanchman's Farm Committee and the Downlands Countryside Project. [1] [2]

Contents

This site has woodland, two meadows, a pond and an orchard. Fauna include foxes, roe deer, wood mice and black hairstreak butterflies. [1]

There is access from Limpsfield Road.

History

The earliest surviving records of Blanchman's Farm date from the 16th century. [3] In the mid-19th century, it was part of a 17 ha (41-acre) estate owned by Edmund Batley Benyon. The area known as the Thrift Fields, around 6.5 ha (16 acres), was purchased by George Wren in June 1885 and remained in private ownership until October 1935, when it was bought by Surrey County Council. The Thrift Fields were used for Home Guard training exercises during the Second World War. In 1944, a V-1 flying bomb landed there and the resulting blast damaged houses in Warren Park. [4]

The rest of Benyon's estate remained intact until 1922, when the owners of Mayes Place bought part of land adjacent to their property. [4] The Caterham and Warlingham Urban District Council acquired the rest of land in 1935, after which it was rented to local farmers for grazing. [5]

Work to improve Blanchman's Farm for wildlife began in 1991 and, by the mid-1990s, a pond had been re-excavated and 6000 trees had been planted. [6] [7] A project to improve disabled access to the site was undertaken in 1998. [8] The site became a Local Nature Reserve in 2006 and a community orchard was established in 2011. [3] A new trackway, suitable for wheelchair and mobility scooter users, was completed in February 2024. [9]

Art

An oil painting of Blanchman's Farm, dated 1913, by Charles Langton Lockton (1856-1932) is held by Warlingham Library. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Blanchman's Farm". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  2. ↑ "Map of Blanchman's Farm". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Walk 1 – Including Blanchman's Farm Local Nature Reserve" (PDF). Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  4. 1 2 Tutt, Dorothy, ed. (1999). Warlingham. Village Histories. Vol. 4. Sanderstead: The Bourne Society. ISBN   978-0-90-099247-6.
  5. ↑ "Vandalism increases - 'serious' they say". Caterham Mirror. No. 927. 30 November 1951. p. 1.
  6. ↑ "Restored pond opens". Caterham Mirror. No. 6086. 10 June 1993. p. 7.
  7. ↑ Bell, Gilliam (2 February 1995). "Teenage bikers' reign of terror". Caterham Mirror. No. 6172. p. 1.
  8. ↑ "Pathways to delight". Caterham Mirror. 10 December 1998. p. 5.
  9. ↑ Brookman, Rosalind (6 March 2024). "All-abilities track opens at Warlingham nature reserve". The Tandridge Independent. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
  10. ↑ "Blanchman's Farm from the South-East". ArtUK. Retrieved 8 January 2025.

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