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Manor Farm is owned and farmed by the Webb familly and is located at the begining of Withins Way.
The farm is slightly hidden behind the Manor House on Church Road, as you turn into Withins Way the large sheds and gated entrance then become visible.

Manor farm has a spacious yard/working area, for the ever increasing size of todays large modern machinery. On one side of the yard there are three joined sheds, these are mainly for the preperation and storage of harvested potatoes. One shed is used for the storage of the harvested crop, while the other one is used for the preperation, grading and bagging for wholesale potatoe merchants. The third shed is used for the storge of machinery, such as tractors and implements.

The other side of the yard has another 3 sheds, although this time seperate from each other. This includes a grain store, next to that there is a small shed for storage and across the yard on the same side is a larger shed used for storage of implements and grading boxes for potatoes.
  As well as the modern buildings the farm still
  holds onto the traditional buildings in one corner
  of the yard, these where once used for hey,
  horses and cattle over 50 years ago. Recent
  buildings include a chemical store and the
  renovation of a barn into an office for the running of the farm, this same building also includes a fully equiped downstairs changing and washing area for staff and workers while on site.

The main crops grown by Bill Webb, at Manor Farm include: Wheat, Barly, Rape/Linseed Oil and potatoes. Up until 2005 Bill Webb famously grew onions, but due to factors in the market, the growing of onions ceased!

To the right we have a 9 minute video of
workers from the farm, planting potatoes.
Here you can see several stages of the field
being prepared, such as bedforming to
de-stoning and the final stage of planting the
potatoe crop.

The item was filmed in April 2007.

Home Farm is managed by Mr David Harrison, the farm is located off Hale Road behind Tec9 and what is locally known as "The Thatches". The farm is owned by Hale Estates who'm own most of the argricultural land in and around Hale Village.

The farm has now down-sized over the years to just growing cerial crops. During the mid 1900's up until the mid 1990's, the farm was a hive of activity, from running a milking herd, calfing, growing potatoes to growing numerous cerial crops.

Most of the farmland, around Home Farm,
was once the open estate parkland of Hale
Hall. This open parkland stretched upto
Baileys Lane, along the shore path to the
Ladypool stream and from the now village
park, for where cattle once grazed during
the mid 1950's through to the late 1960's.

Burnt Mill Farm is managed and farmed by the Lunt Family, the farm is located just outside of the village, at the Northern end of the historic Carr Lane. The farm, looks over the village, from it's position high on the landscape.

The farm was once famous for it's
breeding of pigs, for which it has since
ceased breeding them. The farm now
grows various cerial crops, from
wheat, barley, linseed oil/rape and
beans, it use to, many years ago,
grow and harvest pototoes.

The farm still retains all of it's older out-buildings, which are visible from the main road/Carr Lane as you drive past. Inside the main yard of the farm,, it is neatly laid out, with concrete covering the whole of the site to enabale easy transit and manouvering of farm machinery.

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