SEX74009 - Lodge Farm, Thaxted

Lodge Farm originally formed part of the largest park owned by the manor of Thaxted, known then as Southfirth and later The Great Park. The beginnings of this manor can be traced back to 1393 and it was the largest free estate within the manor of Thaxted.The manor and farm of Richmonds, which included a messuage called The Great Lodge, was held by the Beale family who sold it in May 1730 to Guys Hospital, London. A map survey in 1737 details the land of what was at that time known as Thaxted Lodge and Richmond farms which mirrors the boundary of the former Great Park. From this map we can see the outline of buildings and ponds on the present site of the farm yard at Lodge Farm including where the former lodge or farmhouse stood surrounded by a large moat which partly remains today as a ditch.