Woad Farm

Woad Farm was probably created as a result of the enclosures in the 1770s. A map of 1779 marks most, but not all the fields as "new enclosure", and there are no buildings shown at that date. The land was allocated to the City Of Lincoln which was already a significant landowner in the parish, having purchased the Glebe lands from Henry VIII. From Lincoln records, it is known that Charles Crick was farming 107 acres here in 1837. From census records, James Crick his son was farming here in 1851 and another James Crick Charles' Grandson was here in 1881. For some of the period when the Cricks were farming here, they had tenants in the house, as they were living at 12 High Street which they owned. Joseph Adams took over as tenant in 1890, at which time a Lincoln report describes the house as “very bad”. In 1901, the tenant was Robert Cook. When he died, his wife’s brother, James Ruff took the tenancy. When Lincoln sold their farms in Hanslope in 1918, James Ruff and Clara Cook were recorded as joint tenants in the sales particulars. James Ruff bought Woad Farm in the Lincoln sale. His son Tom took over the farm, which passed to his son James who sold it in the 1970s.

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Woad Farm 1930s	Woad Farm 1950s	Woad Farm 2009	James Ruff Cutting
1918 Lincoln Sale catalogue

The following people are associated with Woad Farm:

Name	Year of Birth	Year of Interest	Source	Occupation/Notes	Probability
Charles Crick		1837	Added Information	Tenant of Woad Farm	90%
Benjamin Tite	1792	1861	Census	Ag. Lab.	100%
William Mills	1848	1871	Census	Ag.Lab.	100%
James Crick	1850	1881	Census	Farmer: 107 acres; empl. 5 men, 2 boys	100%
James Crick		1884	Added Information	Previous tenant of a farm	70%
John Herbert	1855	1891	Census	Horse Keeper	100%
Joseph Adams		1892	Added Information	Tenant of Woad Farm	100%
Joseph Adams		1893	Added Information	Tenant of Woad Farm since 1890	100%
Robert Cook	1835	1901	Census	Farmer	100%
James Ruff	1862	1911	Census	Farmer	100%
James Ruff		1918	Added Information	Joint tenant of Woad Farm	100%
Clara Cook		1918	Added Information	Joint tenant of Woad Farm	100%
James Ruff		1928	Directory	farmer, Woad farm	100%
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