Neat Farmhouse Stratton Swindon

[Milliepede]

Has anyone heard of the above or know when it was demolished?  My father remembers it from his boyhood in the 1930's but we haven't been able to find any photographs or history of it.

 

[aginger]

 8)Millipede,   Having lived in Stratton [upper and Lower]for too many years!! I have never heard of this Farm!!  If your dad could give idea of rough position in the Parish then I will try to find out,I have many friends with farms,and long memories!!
Farmers surname would help,there are very few original farming families living now in the business,let alone doing family history.
The only farm in mind is NYTHE,now a Housing estate,the most southerly in the Parish, farmed by a Mrs HYDE during WW2 with a son and dau in law who had a son John Hyde who I would like to get in touch with [last seen years ago playing Aunt Sally in Langford [Glos] many years ago!!.
Allen

[Milliepede]

Hi there 

Apparently it was one of the two biggest houses in the village, the other being the Boundary House which I'm sure you know in Beechcroft Road.  I remember peering through the keyhole at the dilapidation inside when I was a kid and longing to get inside to explore.  My grandparents actually lived at the top when my father was a child.

Anyway I digress!  Neat House he has always referred to it as in the past but said Neat was an old word for cattle? and it was a farmhouse but obviously I can't confirm that.  It was half way along Dores Road I imagine on the left going down from the Boundary House end and was demolished, must have been in the 1930's he thinks, and Orchard Grove would be where it used to be.

Hope you can find out something about it.  I will ask if he knows the name of anyone that lived there. 

[Phodgetts]

I have Neate in my family line who were from Malmesbury in Wilts. Perhaps we have a connection somewhere along the line.

This is what I discovered about the name Neate;

This interesting surname is a variant of Neat, which is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is from a metonymic occupational name for a herdsman in charge of cattle, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble an ox (this may have referred to a strong man). The name is derived from the Middle English (1200 - 1500) "neat", ox, cow, from the Olde English pre 7th Century "neat".


If you are interested, maybe look up my Neate thread and see if we share any common family.


http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,340810.msg2197935.html#msg2197935

[Milliepede]

There we go then it is to do with cattle!

I don't actually have any connections to the name I am just interested in the building and what it looked like 

[Milliepede]

Little bit more info.  Nobody was living there in the mid 1930's as it was a derelict property that children played in.  Behind it was an orchard hence the name one presumes Orchard Grove which was built on the land.

[aginger]

Another!! ever heard of Neatsfoot Oil? used by carpenters on their oilstones when sharpening tools, extracted from Tripe by all accounts when cooking,ties up with Neat.
On the right hand side of Orchard Grove half way approx is a small track, there at the end is a very old house still!! with an overgrown orchard,it looks derelict but some persons evidently reside in it I am told,until I was working in a garden abutting the orchard and had never noticed it before!

[youngtug]

hi. Sorry , made from the shins and feet [not hooves] of cows, as the fat in these areas have a lower gelling temperature. used mainly for leather treatment, ie; saddles etc.  my grandfather used to rub it in his hands to alleviate the chaps he used to get from his job as a blacksmiths striker. john.

[murphy0383]

Hi, just looking and saw about the farm house at the end of dores road are you still looking for information? as there is a picure of it in stratton publication but the farm has long gone as my house is one of 3 built on the site if your interested i wil try and find out the owners names for you.