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Farming the Marsh

Farming has shaped Newchurch life from the very beginning.  There have been many changes but agriculture is still the main industry here.

  • Less people so more sheep. Find out how disease lead to the supremacy of the famous Romney Marsh Sheep.  roundbutton-sm.jpg

  • See 'A day in the life' of farming in years gone by.roundbutton-sm.jpg

  • Read the reminiscences of Charles Homewood. roundbutton-sm.jpg

  • Steam power arrives in farming roundbutton-sm.jpg

  • Rioting in Newchurch? Whatever next? roundbutton-sm.jpg

 
 

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