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This imposing tomb belongs to William Brown, [27] the last landowning farmer who lived at Challoners [view] - one of the oldest buildings in the village. Challoners had been owned by the Beard family (see grave [7]) from the 17th century but was bought by William Brown in 1915.

'Farmer Brown' is mentioned in the Angela Thirkell (grave [13b]) childhood memoir 'Three Houses':

'We were personally not on visiting terms with Farmer Brown, but we stood in respectful awe of a man who had such an enchanting farmyard and such fine barns and such heaps of rich manure and could play on haystacks whenever he liked without being turned off by an irate farm hand'.

_Challoners