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From The Muniment Room, a resource for social history, family history, and local history.

Quarr Farm (Quor, Quar), also known as Quarr Abbey Farm, was a farm on the Quarr Abbey Isle of Wight Estates. The farmhouse occupied the site of old Quarr Abbey.

It was surveyed by George Salmon in 1770; John Whitcher in 1817.

Quarr House was built on part of Quarr Farm from the 1840s, and after 1858 this property was conveyed to Sir Thomas Cochrane. Quarr Farm was sold by the Fleming Estate in 1912 to the modern monastery.

Tenants and occupiers of Quarr Farm

• Henry Rawkins (1733^[1])
• William Rawkins (1791^[2])
• Mrs Rawkins (1817^[3])
• George Watson (1831^[4]), Estate bailiff
• Charles Mackintosh Smith Esq (1834^[5], 1837^[6], 1841^[7])
• William Gibbins (1841^[8]), occupier
• George Rendell (1851^[9], 1853^[10]), but farmhouse occupied by his bailiff Jesse Randell
• Daniel Barnes (1875)
• Ernest Groves (188*)
• Harry Fleming (1910^[11])

Gazetteer

Quarr Farm and Quarr Wood from Survey of the Estates on the Isle of Wight, 1817

Estate Plan 1817 Survey Quarr Wood 2-7, 13-17 221 Upper Broom Close 43 222 Lower Broom Close 44 223 Spring Butts 46 (i) 224 Carters Copse 225 Upper Carters Close 100 227 Lower Carters Close 101 228 Lower Carters Close Row 229 Green Carters Close 46 (ii) 230 Lower Sampsons Orchard 231 Upper Sampsons Orchard 232 Sheepwash Littens - 233 Littens 10 234 Farm House Yard Gdn Bgs &c 9 235 Orchard 236 The Marsh 8 237 Sea Close 238 Inner Butt 239 Great Fish House Copse 240 Upper Ground 241 Fish House Butt 242 Gish House Mead 243 Hill Ten Acres 244 Upper Ground 245 Hither Abbey Pits 246 North Close 248 Little Meadow 249 The Great Meadow 250 Water Meadow 251 Yonder Abbey Pits 252 Eighteen Acres 253 Nine Acres 254 Great Gravel pit Ground 255 Gravel pits &c. 256 Little Gravel pit Ground 89, 92, 91 257 Cothey Piece 258 Little Wood 259 Cothey Butt 97 260 Cothey Butt 11 261 Fother House Ground 90 262 Grove Ground 48 263 Grove Ground Row 264 Eleanor's Grove 47 265 The Five Acres 99 266 The Six Acres 98 267 First Mill Field 96 268 Second Mill Field 95 269 Third Mill Field 270

References

1. ↑ Admission of Henry Rawkins in respect of Quarr Farm, 1733  (WFMS:497 | IOWRO FLM/23)
2. ↑ Lease of Quarr Farm, 1791  (WFMS:545 | IOWRO FLM/63)
3. ↑ Survey of the Estates on the Isle of Wight, 1817
4. ↑ Hampshire Telegraph, 7 Mar 1831
5. ↑ Copy lease of Quarr Farm and part of Fishbourne Farm, 1834  (WFMS:585 | IOWRO FLM/105)
6. ↑ Trust deed to bar entail, 1837  (WFMS:208 | HRO 102M71/T11)
7. ↑ 1841 Census
8. ↑ 1841 Census
9. ↑ 1851 Census
10. ↑ Draft lease of Quarr Farm for 11 years to George Rendell, 1853   (IOWRO, FAR/DD/68)
11. ↑ Perambulation of the boundaries of the Fleming estate in the Isle of Wight, 1910