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Conqueror's Farm
This was an old farm towards the bottom end of Cotwall End Road and no longer exists, supposedly mentioned in the Doomsday Book.
1907 Sale Notice: County Advertiser, 23 February.
ON MONDAY NEXT.
CONQUEROR'S FARM, STRAITS, SEDGLEY
(1 mile from Sedgley, 3 ½ Dudley).
M  ESSRS. NOCK and JOSELAND have received
  instruction from Mrs. S. B. Caswell, who is giving up the Farm, to SELL by AUCTION, on Monday Next, February 25th, 1907,
9 SHORTHORN DAIRY CATTLE,
5 HORSES and COLTS.
Useful Assortment of AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Poultry; also
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Sale at 12-30.
Catalogues of the Auctioneers, 49, Queen-Street, Wolvehampton; and Kidderminster.
A colliery was established nearby in the early twentieth century.
The farm buildings were demolished sometime in the 1960s.
The Straits Housing Estate built on the opposite side of Cotwall End Road was laid out in 1959, and originally called "Conqueror's Farm Estate".
The Caswell family farmed at Cotwall End since the early 19th Century, the farm was given up in 1907 by Mrs. S.B.Caswell.
In 1911, John Bagnall is recorded as the farmer at Conqueror's Farm, two of his Sons - Walter and Harold were helping on the farm. [Census]
When the owner, the Earl of Dudley, sold off this property in 1947, it was said that it has an area 98½ acres and included the benefit of lease of clays.
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