Photograph of Creeches Farm, Hook, late 19th Century

Creeches Farm became part of the Lydiard estate when it was bought by Lady Bolingbroke in 1906. It had previously belonged to the Meux estate and was home to the Phillimore family. Their descendent Own Hale held the tenancy at the time of the sale, farming twenty acres of land for which he paid £40 p.a. - this included sporting rights on an adjoining piece of land. Members of the Hale family can be seen in the photograph.

Creeches Farm was sold by the executors of Viscountess Bolingbroke in the Lydiard Park Estate sale of 1943.

See Items of Interest: Creeches Farm Hook and some of its inhabitants, by Olga Fry (Report no. 36)