Home Farm Sheerness.

[mwsmith]

2KRRC were billetted at Home Farm on Sheerness in Kent in September 1914. Does anyone out therte know where it was? Do any locals know anything about the hiostory of the place? Does it still exist as a farm?

Any help welcome.

Mike

[Jonathan Saunders]

Never heard of it but Sheerness is actually a town on the Isle of Sheppey - so Sheerness is one small corner of Sheppey. It would have been nearly all farm land - as it still is, well nearly, so Home Farm might still exist as a Farm. You could try contacting Sheerness Reference library??

[mickgall]

Hi Mike

I've just had a good look at OS explorer map 149 and there doesn't appear to a Home farm on the island anymore. I also looked in the kent AZ street atlas for any roads in Sheerness named Home farm or similar in the title but again nothing.

However there is a Holm Place about 1mile south of Sheerness, GR 924 731, but thats more towards a village called Halfway. There is also a Holiday camp as you leave Sheerness on the A250, and there is a rifle range just to the east of this in Bartons Point Coastal Park so these could have been military at some point.

Try this link to multi-map, it shows the area I talking about , I think its from the th OS landranger maps, slightly smaller scale than the map I used.

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?cli...=187&up.y=5

hope some of this helps

Mick

[mwsmith]

Hi Mike

I've just had a good look at OS explorer map 149 and there doesn't appear to a Home farm on the island anymore. I also looked in the kent AZ street atlas for any roads in Sheerness named Home farm or similar in the title but again nothing.

However there is a Holm Place about 1mile south of Sheerness, GR 924 731, but thats more towards a village called Halfway. There is also a Holiday camp as you leave Sheerness on the A250, and there is a rifle range just to the east of this in Bartons Point Coastal Park so these could have been military at some point.

Try this link to multi-map, it shows the area I talking about , I think its from the th OS landranger maps, slightly smaller scale than the map I used.

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?cli...=187&up.y=5

hope some of this helps

Mick

Thanks Mick,

Thats a good start. The reference comes from my grandfather's war diary and I think the spelling is probably right.

Mike

[mwsmith]

Never heard of it but Sheerness is actually a town on the Isle of Sheppey - so Sheerness is one small corner of Sheppey. It would have been nearly all farm land - as it still is, well nearly, so Home Farm might still exist as a Farm. You could try contacting Sheerness Reference library??

Jonathon,

Thanks for that. I'm down in Kent in September and plan a visit to Sheerness to follow upleads. Mike