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Allotment<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u200bA First World War allotment has been re-created where you can discover more about life on the Home Front and the ways in which Somerset people supported the war effort. The allotment was opened to mark the First World War Centenary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Abbey Barn is one of the West Country\u2019s finest buildings.<\/a> It was completed in the 1340s to store produce from the Glastonbury Abbey estates.<\/p>\n The barn\u2019s excellent stonework, fine carvings and magnificent roof reflect the abbey\u2019s great wealth during the middle ages.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The abbey was dissolved in 1539, but the barn continued in use as a farm building until 1972.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n In the farmyard there is a striking life-sized sculpture of a horse, made from reclaimed metal, by artist Harriet Mead. The horse is called Punch after one of the real-life working horses at Abbey Farm. Make sure you get your selfie with Punch, with Glastonbury Tor in the background!<\/p>\n\n\n\n You’ll also see a Little Grey Fergie Tractor. The farm\u2019s first tractor, a grey Ferguson T20, arrived in the late 1940s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A wooden Grain Store has been restored and you’ll see it raised up on \u2018staddle\u2019 stones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Orchard Somerset is famous for its apple orchards and its cider. The orchard at Abbey Farm grows apples of local origin and helps to preserve some of the old and rare varieties. Allotment \u200bA First World War allotment has been re-created where you can discover more about life on the Home Front and the ways… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":168,"parent":77,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"1","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/somerset-rural-life-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/somerset-rural-life-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/somerset-rural-life-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/somerset-rural-life-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/somerset-rural-life-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/somerset-rural-life-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1433,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/somerset-rural-life-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/1433"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/somerset-rural-life-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/somerset-rural-life-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swheritage.org.uk\/somerset-rural-life-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Somerset](\"https:\/\/somerset-rural-life-museum.swht.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/07\/SRLM_Allotment_For_Web-800x600.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAbbey Barn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\nThe Farmyard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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