I hope that this website will become a place for history, photographs and memories. The idea began to germinate when Tim Riley was contacted by Bill Martin who had discovered two films about the LSA during his researches into the Sidlesham Estate. He showed these to an enthusiastic audience of about 100 in October 2014 in Dymock Church Hall. What you will find here is the slowly growing record of a way of life on the estate which was danger of being forgotten. The website is organised by road, with individual pages of information and photographs about the various activities, holdings and tenants. If you would like to contribute in any way, or you would like a page for your own memories and photographs, please use the contact form to contact me. Geoff Wood, October 2014
Some
early films and BBC broadcasts about the LSA and Newent Estate) can be
found under the Films & Broadcasts menu on the left.
The LSA Newent Estate was always know locally as The Scarr. It was laid between 1936 and1938 after the purchase of Scarr and Ford House Farms and other land by the Land Settlement Association Ltd. The table below shows the original acreage purchased, but for reasons not yet understood, only the first 322.5 acres were developed into new roads, packing sheds, machinery stores, offices and the 57 holdings,
The table below has been extracted from copies of various conveyances kindly deposited by Les Hunter and shows all the original purchases of land by the LSA to form the Newent Estate.