ALAN NEWBLE'S PERSONAL PAGE
SOME PICTURES OF THE PROJECT

Here is another view, I like it because it shows something of my orchard, also. I was intent on trying to produce fruit here, because that's what they did when the farm supplied the Abbey, hence its name. "Bal.." means "Fermtoon" or farm township and "mesh" is reckoned to mean "supplier to the Lord of the Abbey" or as some suppose, it means the mashing of fruit to make drink, like Mead.
The field looks a bit of a mess - this is because the outgoing farmer promised to reseed the field, and did so, but with mostly weed seed! He admitted that the "seed" was sweepings from the floor of the seed mill! Result - lots of weeds, growing lustily until some sheep were introduced. Thank you Neil, the sheep have done a wonderful job, and are still doing so in areas we are still reclaiming.