Grange Farm
residents: Oliver & Caroline Stirling [nee Bone, formerly Pemberton]

Originally a tenant farm, this 50-acre farm is now home to the Master of the Hunt, Oliver Sterling and his blue-blooded girlfriend Caroline Pemberton – a distant relation to Lord Netherbourne.

However, Grange Farm is most remembered as the Grundy family’s homestead. For which Joe and Eddie Grundy will not allow you or Stirling forget. The Grundy’s were tenant farmers from the (original) Berrow Estate. Joe Grundy inherited the tenancy from generations of Grundy family farmers. However, it was under his leadership that Grange Farm circulated from one disaster to the next - which resulted in bankruptcy over an £8,000 debt to Borsetshire Mills and the eviction from their farm home in 2000.

The farm is located on part of a medieval village near the River Am’s ford and weir. In1995, the Grundy family became area celebrities when a German World War II plane was found and excavated in one of their fields. In 1996, there was a massive fire that destroyed their milking parlour that threatened their livelihood when the Estate, under Simon Pemberton’s control, wasn’t going to replace it. Some see this as the start of the end to the Grundy legacy at Grange Farm. Ending in total humiliation, receivers turned up to the Grundy doorstep and auctioned off all of their farming equipment right in front of their very eyes. The Grundy’s were officially evicted by the Estate in 2000, when it was decided they were not living according to their tenancy agreement.

Simon and Debbie [nee Travers-Macy/Aldridge] Gerard showed much interest in wanting to rent the farm after the Grundy eviction to the horror of many Grundy supporters. But when the Estate’s, now owned by Borchester Land, Matt Crawford got wind of this, he made it his duty to hinder any such transaction. The bulk of the acreage was then absorbed into Borchester Land’s Estate and the farmhouse and 50 acres were sold to huntsman Stirling.