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At the beginning September 2005 Steve, Pesky the horses and myself all moved
into Three Lows Farm in Staffordshire. To the left is a photo of the
house taken from the bottom of the drive.
The house is positioned about 100ft/ 300 meters above sea level and has
about 10.01 acres of grounds. It was purchased in a non habitable
state in mid July and work was undertaken so it would be habitable in
September. Work is currently still in progress to finish the interior. This was Steve's and my first venture into land ownership, though not
house ownership so we have yet to invest in tractors and the like. It has taken a while to get used to the idea that the horses are just in
the back garden after 9 years of keeping horses in livery yards! But
it sure saves on time. Fortunately there is a large concrete apron with a stone wall out the
front so even when they are shut in at night they still have a reasonable amount
of space to roam around in. We plan to get some in lamb ewes in the near future to act as
additional grass mowers and to provide us with food in the longer term.
Not really a lot you can say about a picture of grass but here
goes. The land is divided up into three fields two of about 4 acres
and one of about 1 acre. The two large fields are to the
right of the house as you look up the drive, adjacent to one another and
dry stone walled. The third field is situated some 15 feet / 3meters above the other two
fields, behind the house and currently has no access from our land.
We intend to put a gated access to this field from the road and possibly
also up the bank from the parking area next year. Ideally I would
like to turn this into an all weather arena but time and money will
tell what the future holds for this idea.
Yard.
The horses winter accommodation is a
solid stone former cow shed. To prepare this for their use I had to
remove three steel reinforced concrete partitions, cover the glass in the
windows with perspex, have electricity and fluorescent lighting installed
and fill the slurry drainage channel.
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