About Home Farm

The Gaddesden Estate occupies approximately 1,800 acres in the Borough of Dacorum, in the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The underlying rock is chalk, with a clay cap.

The area is a well known site for Hertfordshire Pudding Stones, a glacial conglomerate.

Recent research has established that the field pattern still retains the skeletal outline of Iron Age and Roman farming. Though much altered in the intervening centuries, many of the boundaries may be more than 2000 years sold.

The agriculture is mixed, with the single suckler Beef Shorthorn herd being established in-house. Arable farming is undertaken by PR Farming Ltd. Both conventional husbandry methods are used (ploughing, harrowing, drilling etc.) and integrated cultivations with a Simba ‘Free-flow’ drill.

Cornthwaite and Partners farm Gaddesden Park breeding lamb and single suckler beef and Upperwood Farm Stud breeds thoroughbred racehorses.

The Home Farm is accredited under the Assured Combinable Crops Scheme (ACCS) No. 9475.

There is provision for drying and storage of 1,800 tons of produce.

Conservation news

Posted 25/9/2009

New future for woodlands

After much research it seems probable that we will be able to heat the whole of the Home Farm Business Centre, including the Home Farm House with a woodchip heating system. We are looking into the boilers made by various providers.