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SHALBOURNE - SU 36 SW 6/156 Prosperous II House. Early and mid C19. Brick with tiled roof. Centre block 2- storey and attic, 3 bays, with gabled central porch and double glazed doors under round arch.
Jul 6, 2022 · Shalbourne has had many scattered farms. Names from the 1851 census include: Shalbourne Manor Farm; Westcourt Farm (fourteenth-century); East Court Farm; Noons Farm; Brick House Farm; Slope End Farm; and Prosperous Farm, where Jethro Tull (1674-1741) invented the seed drill. Prosperous Farm still prospers.
Sep 26, 2024 · Jethro Tull, the agriculturist and author of Horsehoeing Husbandry and other works, came to live in 1709 at Prosperous Farm in this parish, where he died 21 February 1741. Manors. The manor of SHALBOURNE was held by King Edward the Confessor.
Returning to England, in 1709 he took into his own hands the farm called Prosperous, at Shalbourne [3] (then in Berkshire, now in Wiltshire). Here, resuming the agricultural efforts he had commenced earlier, he wrote his book Horse-hoeing Husbandry (1731).
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Shalbourne was the site of Prosperous Farm; it lies at the extreme southwest of the parish of Hungerford and is partly in Wiltshire and partly in Berkshire. The question arises as to what was Tull senior's connection with Shalbourne at this date, and whether he was farming Prosperous Farm there.
Thereafter, upon returning to his own country, Tull took into his own hands a farm called Prosperous, at Shalbourne, and started experimenting with new agricultural methods. For the rest of his life, he worked on the farm and played a major role in revolutionizing the British agriculture.
