Cowleaze Farm is situated on flat, well-watered clay lands near Shrivenham. For generations it was part of the local Beckett Estate and was farmed by tenants until the Estate, manor house and extensive farm holdings were sold between 1917 and 1929. 

Leonard Knapp and his wife owned and farmed Cowleaze from the mid-1920s until 1947. At this time the farm consisted of the house, a comprehensive and interesting range of farm buildings and a pair of semi-detached workers’ cottages. In the 1960s the house and some of the outbuildings were bought as a private dwelling.

In the early 1950s Pendon researched Cowleaze Farm prior to constructing the model of the farm, cottages and their environment. 

Friends of Pendon can find more about this building here

The prototype for this model building is on the edge of Shrivenham. 

The farm, its outbuildings, barns and cottages were researched in the early 1950s by Roye England and others.

The model was built around 1990 by Penny Thompson and Ron Rising.

The model is set in flat land near the Oxford Line at the western end of the Vale Scene.

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Cowleaze Farm is on the outskirts of Shrivenham. It was farmed by tenant-farmers until the manor house and extensive farm holdings were sold between 1917 and 1929.

There is much more about this building and the model on the Friends Place page