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Description: | Green Farm was the last working farm on Portsea Island. Believed to date from 1630, it originally consisted of 40 acres of land which stretched as far as the railway line and was owned by the War Department who maintained the buildings.
The farm was known locally as 'the rhubarb farm' because of the amount of rhubarb which grew there.
The Benham family farmed it from 1933 to 1962 but in the 1990s, the land was sold and it was converted into a bar and restaurant.
Its old form is easily recognisable and both the farmhouse and barn are Grade ll Listed.
Smith, Jane. 2003. Book of Hilsea; Gateway to Portsmouth, p16.
Copy of a photograph created by Derek Dine. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire County Council - Hampshire Library and Information Service | Subjects: | farm Green Farm | Temporal: | start=1900-01-01; end=1920-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Dine, Derek; Hampshire County Library; 1970s-1980s | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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