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Timeline

1993 -      Public launch of the Countryside Restoration Trust.
                Sir Laurens van der Post accepts role of Patron.

1994 -      Planting of hedge in Telegraph Field and first Open Days at Barton.

1995 -      Land now totals 40 acres.
                Donation from Her Majesty the Queen and a visit by Prince 
                Charles.              

1996 -      Warner’s Corner (50 acres) purchased from Mr Mervyn Page (Robin’s 
                father) at a hugely discounted price.

1997 -      Lark Rise Farm appeal reaches £200,000.
                Sir Laurens van der Post sadly dies.        

1998 -      Heritage Lottery Fund bid successful and 140 acres purchased.
                Lark Rise Farm is formed.

1999 -      Nan Major leaves CRT £120,000 in her Will.
                Her ashes are spread on Lark Rise Farm.
                First harvest for Lark Rise Farm on Nan’s Field.

2000 -      David Powell gifts his Awnells Farm in Much Marcle to the CRT.
                Mary Thorley gives Buxted to the Trust.
                David Shepherd agrees to be CRT Patron.

2001 -      CRT given Margaret Wood in Yorkshire by Duncan Elliot.
                Lark Rise Farm extended by a further 120 acres with the purchase of 
                Westfield.

2002 -      Robin Page completes Butterfly Safari raising over £10,000 for The
                Gordon Beningfield Memorial Appeal.

2003 -      Turnastone Farm purchased and Appeal launched.
                Star-studded CRT Tenth Anniversary Celebration at The Royal
                Institution of Great Britain.

2004 -      CRT receives the gifts of May Fields from Greta McDonough and  
                Harold’s Grove from Gerald Sanctuary.
                Prince Charles visits the Trust again.

2005 -      Land at Bicker, Lincolnshire, donated by Jason Martin.
                Gas pipeline threatens Turnastone.

2006 -      Pierrepont Farm, Frensham, Surrey gifted to the CRT by Jo Baker.

2007 -      Gift of Green Farm, Churt, Surrey by John Broadbent-Jones.

2008 -      Purchase of Tinker's Field, Cambridge. A 30 acre organic field
                bordered on three sides by existing Lark Rise land.
                Tinkers' Field Appeal launched [more].

 

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