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.

Wrights Mill

Hay Making

South Street Park as Farm Field

Fleece

Mumby Mill

Hay Making with Steam

1928 Hundon

A Sheep

Farming – Threshing

Top House Fleece

Robert Shearsmith 1930s

Cows