Information and pictures about Bishopstrow Farm, Bishopstrow.
Thursday 4th September 2014
A view of Middle Hill, looking north from
Bishopstrow Farm, across disc-harrowed stubble
in Dairy Field, Railway Close, The Fallow Field
and Peter’s Field. The Bourne Ditch and the Warminster-Salisbury railway line both cross
the photograph which was taken by Danny
Howell on Thursday 4th September 2014.
Sunday 17th August 2014
Oil seed rape showing green in the 40 Acres,
behind Middle Hill, at Bishopstrow Farm.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Sunday 17th August 2014.
Thursday 10th July 2014
Ripening wheat in Dairy Field
at Bishopstrow Farm, Bishopstrow.
Photograph taken by Danny Howell
on Thursday 10th July 2014.
Christmas Day 2013
The gravestone of John Robert Cox in St. Aldhelm’s churchyard at Bishopstrow.
The inscription reads: In loving memory of John Robert Cox who fell asleep 25:Dec:1899 aged 56 years.
John Robert Cox farmed Bishopstrow Farm.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell on Christmas Day 2013, 114 years to the day since Mr. Cox’s death.
Tuesday 9th July 2013
Two views from North Farm Road,
Norton Bavant, looking west to Railway Cottages
at Middleton Lane, Bishopstrow, with
Boreham and Battlesbury
in the background. Hay has been baled in the
field in the foreground during a recent spell
of hot and sunny weather.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Tuesday 9th July 2013.
Tuesday 21st May 2013
Dandelions a’plenty in the Boreham part
of the 70 Acres field,
at Bishopstrow Farm, Bishopstrow.
There’ll be no trouble telling the hour
with these dandelion clocks.
The photographs are taken from the
Morgan’s Drove side of the 70 Acres.
Middle Hill in the background.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Tuesday 21st May 2013.
Wednesday 2nd May 2013
A huge John Deere tractor with a massive
disc harrow/cultivator, making its way
along Cox’s Drove,
north of Bishopstrow Farm.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on Thursday 2nd May 2013.
Alongside Cox’s Drove Wood.
Folded up for transport.
Moving towards Cox’s Drove Bridge.
Sunday 31st March 2013
The view north-west from Cox’s Drove Bridge,
at Bishopstrow, looking over Long Close
(a field of Bishopstrow Farm)
towards Battlesbury.
The people walking across Long Close
are guests from Bishopstrow House Hotel
out for a Sunday afternoon stroll.
The photograph was taken by Danny Howell
on Sunday 31st March 2013.
Peter Rice driving a Class Lexicon combine,
harvesting field beans in the top part
of the ’70 Acres’ field
at Bishopstrow Farm, Bishopstrow,
during the evening of
Friday 2nd September 2011:
The combine turns on the headland.
Striking out through a new section of beans;
Middle Hill in the background.
Approaching the western side of the field.
Turning on the headland again.
Beware of the dust!
Discharging beans from the combine
to the trailer, ready for draying
by the tractor to the barn.
Glorious sunshine in the eveningÂ
after a very hot September day.
Peter keeping a watchful eye on the proceedings.
Scratchbury hill and Middleton
in the background,
and the Great Ridge Woods
on the distant horizon.
Stirring up the dust below Middle Hill.
The field beans still in their pods on the crop.
A final glimpse.
