Gills Farm

Gills Farm was created by Sir Christopher Sykes in 1795.

When put up for sale by the Sledmere Estate in 1919, the details were as follows:

Farm House: Entrance, Three Sitting Rooms, Kitchen, Scullery, Five Bedrooms, Front and Back Stairs, and a Foreman’s House. Barn, Stable for 18 Horses, Granary, Cowhouses, Tractor and Motor House, Covered Fold Yards, Boxes, Sheds and other Buildings, and the following Closes of Grass and Arable Land.

Tenant – Mr. H.G.Wood.

No. on Plan.	DESCRIPTION OR CULTIVATION.		Area (acres)
32	House and Homestead		3.135
104	Worm Dale Barn and Yards		.260
33	Paddock	Grass	1.455
34		do.	2.940
25		do.	50.996
106	Worm Dale	do.	90.147
38	Paddock	do.	3.529
39	do.	do.	14.347
	378ÔÇöBishop Wilton	do.	17.595
			186.779
40		Arable	37.020
41		do.	28.113
42		do.	23.350
103	Worm Dale Close	do.	23.541
105	do.	do.	18.661
107		do.	21.284
28	Cow Dale Leys	do.	43.377
27		do.	35.629
26		do.	43.675
29	Cow Dale Leys	do.	27.048
30		do.	22.252
110		do.	25.760
111	Foreman’s House and Garden	do.	31.381
151		do.	38.337
152		do.	36.229
31	Shelter Plantation		3.574
36	Road		.456
108	do.		.305
		A	647.311