Farming at Foxworthy

One of a series of photographs of farming at Foxworthy in the 1880s, originally owned by the Rev Walters, a Foxworthy tenant. The farmers here are employing a uniquely local method of fertilising called 'Devonshiring'. Farmers would remove the top layer of turf, leave it to dry and then burn it. The ash residue would then be scattered over the field as a fertiliser.