The heavy clay soils and windy conditions at Watchtree would not have allowed for particularly productive farming. Instead the land would most likely have been pasture land with sheep and cattle grazing.The heavy clay soils and windy conditions at Watchtree would not have allowed for particularly productive farming. Instead the land would most likely have been pasture land with sheep and cattle grazing.
Watchtree Farm was farmed right up to the Second World War when the site was handed over to the military and an airfield built.