Milk Churn Stand - Lower Road
Milk Churn Stand - Lower Road


Outside Yew Tree Farmhouse on Lower Road is a fairly rare surviving example of a milk churn stand. These stands – often built from stone or concrete blocks, but sometimes simply made of wood – were usually of a standard height and were used for holding milk churns while they were awaiting collection by a cart or lorry.

Once a common roadside feature in dairy farming areas, these stands became obsolete in 1979 when the Milk Marketing Board decided it would no longer collect milk churns and instead all milk was thereafter collected by tanker from farm vats. This change marked the end of small-scale milk production, often from hand-milked small herds like the one that would have been milked at Yew Tree Farm. The milking parlour for the farm is now a separate property known as Whitakers.


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