Record Details
| MonUID: | MST11532 |
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| HER Number: | 50423 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Upper Castle Hays Farm / Goodwin Farm, Stone Pit Hill, Fauld, Hanbury |
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Summary
The site of a farmstead destroyed by an accidental explosion at the underground RAF bomb store in 1944 which created Fauld Crater.
Monument Type(s):
- FARMSTEAD (Established, Georgian to Hanoverian - 1800 AD? to 1834 AD)
Full description
'Upper Castle Hays Farm' is shown on the 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map of 1884. (JM, 29/4/03) <1>
The farm, also known as Goodwin's Farm from the name of the family who occupied it, was totally destroyed in an accidental explosion in the underground RAF bomb store in 1944 (see PRN 50421 and 50422). The explosion left a crater measuring 800 ft long by 300 ft wide by 120 ft deep, killing all four occupants of the farm, one farm labourer, and all the livestock. (JM, 29/4/03) <2>
The isolated farmstead was laid out around a loose, three-sided courtyard with detached farmhouse. (SB, 20-Jul2-105) <3>
The farmstead is named on the 1830s 1" Ordnance Survey map. (SB, 20-Jul-2015) <4>
Sources and further reading
| <1> | SST3601 - Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 1875-1890. Ordnance Survey 1st Edition 6" Maps. Plastic film. 6" to the mile. Staffordshire Sheet XL N.W.. |
| <2> | SST3780 - Article in serial: Jones, T. 1988. [Faulds Bomb Crater]. Staffordshire Studies. Vol 1: 54?-77. |
| <3> | SST87 - Digital Archive: Bob Edwards (Forum Heritage Services). 2008. Historic Farmsteads and Landscape Character in Staffordshire - GIS Data. 266135. |
| <4> | SST3657 - Cartographic: David and Charles (Publisher). 1970. Ordnance Survey 1834-1836 1" Maps. Paper. 1" to a mile. Sheet 34 - Stafford. |
Related records
| 50422 | Parent of: Fauld Crater, Hanbury (Monument) |
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