Silksworth, Vicarage Farm

HER Number:
8397

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Silksworth, Vicarage Farm

Place:
Silksworth

Map Sheet:
NZ35SE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Farm

Site Type: Specific:
Farmstead

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1898 as a farmhouse and range of farm buildings surrounding a courtyard to the rear with a pond to the ESE. The pond has disappeared by the 1919 OS plan and two long outbuildings have been constructed behind the earlier farm building range. Documentary evidence first cites Vicarage Farm in 1895 (Ward) with a John Joseph Botcherby as occupier. He may be the son of the Joseph Botcherby who had occupied Mill Hill Farm during the same period. By 1911 Richard Thompson is the occupier. The farm appears to have closed in 1923.

Easting:
3791

Northing:
5322

Grid Reference:
NZ37915322

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey second edition, 1898; Wardell Armstrong Archaeology, 2013, Mill Hill, Silksworth, Sunderland, Archaeological Assessment;