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Hillsome Farm Estate was in existence by the 1730s when the then owner, Hopeful Vokins left a sum of money to the town, which was to be paid out of the rent from his estate. According to the VCH it was built on an enclosure made before 1594. It is located by the Cirencester Road and has been altered from its original buildings. Sir Walter Preston had it rebuilt in 1922, to designs by Maurice Chesterton, and then had it enlarged in the 1930s.
The buildings along the Cirencester Road are now a BUPA nursing home 'Ilsom House'.
The land has been farmed by the following over the years:
1830 George Whitehead, occupier of lands at Hillsome, rent greater than £50 per year entitled him to vote, owner of property was John Bennett of Maidford
1841-1862 Thomas Dee NB he was married to Mary Whitehead
1871-1876 Cornelius Carey [80acres]
1891 Lucy Maundrell?
1897-1900 Jane Kearsey
1901 Jesse Reynolds
1914 George Douglas Day Brighty. farm bailiff to Arthur J Walmsley
1930s Sir Walter R Preston
OWNERS
1730 Hopeful Vokins
1830 John Bennett of Maidford, leased to George Whitehead
1860 John Bennett of Maidford, leased to Thomas Dee
1914 Arthur J Walmsley
1930 Sir Walter Rueben Preston MP
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