Model Farm

A model farm was an 18th–19th century experimental farm, which researched and demonstrated improvements in agricultural techniques, efficiency, and building layout. Education and commitment to improving welfare standards of workers were also aspects of the ideal farm movement. Farm buildings were designed to be beautiful as well as utilitarian – inspired by the ideals of the enlightenment.

See also

• Thomas Coke
• Wrexham Road Farm
• Sturgeons House

Bibliography

• Susanna Wade Martins. The English model farm: building the agricultural ideal, 1700-1914 (Windgather Press, 2002).
• G.E. Mingay, The Victorian countryside, Volume 1 (Routledge, 2000), p214 ff.
• "John Martin Robinson. Georgian Model Farms: A Study of Decorative and Model Farm Buildings in the Age of Improvement, 1700-1846 (Oxford University Press, 1984)
• Sarah Tarlow. The archaeology of improvement in Britain, 1750-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p67 ff.