As a rural town, farming has been very important for local families for many hundreds of years. After Dairy farming much of the land is given over to arable crops, chiefly barley, wheat, oil seed rape and potatoes.

South Street Park as Farm Field

Wrights Mill

A Sheep

Cows

Robert Shearsmith 1930s

Mumby Mill

Top House Fleece

Hay Making

Farming – Threshing

1928 Hundon

Hay Making with Steam

Fleece