Knapwell Wood Farm

Knapwell is a small town several wests of miles of Cambridge. This is close to the growing city of Cambourne and the smallest towns of Boxworth, Elsworth and Childerley. The old Road of the north at first constructs by the Roman ones to link up the races of London and York to the West.

Knapwell was recorded in the Book of Domesday in 1086 as having roughly 500 half-hectares of earth and which is thought to be almost 200 inhabitants, remarkably a total that remained the constant one by the last one thousand years. The sector first was regulated by the Saxon Americans a day during Under Roman Great Britain, a restless period in the English history that arrived when the Roman ones left after the fall of Rome, also sometimes known as one of the Dark Periods. The first settlers would have clarifyed natal wood to render capable the sector to be cultivated.

The true one enter into the Book of Domesday refers itself to Knapwell as is possessed by the Abbey of Ramsey; "there are 5 skins here. There is the earth for 8 ploughs. There is 1 and a half skins in demesne, and there are 2 ploughs here. There are 8 villeins and 4 sokemen having 1 and a half skins, and 4 cottars and 4 serfs. There is wood for the fences and the meadow for 2 ploughs. In all this is the value £6."

Ramsey Abbey was one of the owners of earth of the major country as were a lot of Monasteries of the time. Knapwell was bequeathed to the Abbey of Ramsey by his owner Evaaque Aednoth preceding of Dorchester in 1049. The earth then would have been rented to put tenants until the 1530 when Henry VIII executed the dissolution of the Monasteries. During these period Monasteries were dismantled and was stripped of their goods. Knapwell would have been liquidated in this moment.

To bring us to the current one is the Farm of Farm that trims Knapwell, a sector of special interest that is on the avant-garde one of farming of conservation of modern day. This is a farm of 450 half-hectares possessed by the Royal Corporation for the Protection of Birds and is carried by a local farmer jointly with the scientists of RSPB and the local voluntary. The objective of the farm is to develop methods viables of farming of this support and preserves the wildlife. The farm plants the fall harvest sown that turns on a period of three years and uses wheat, wheat again and then rape of oleaginous seed. The fall harvest sown became more shed than jumps sown because of the biggest profitability, but they furnish one less than suitable habitat for student of the birds and if the RSPB treats manners to help student of the birds in the fall environments sown. The first one four years of the project saw a healthy increase in the numbers of bird, for example the quantities of Buntings of Linnets and Reed doubled. Firm of firm one does not supply for the visitors and because of this it is famous the Farm of Hope to dissuade people of finding it easily.