The farm comprises 200 acres, of which two thirds are pasture and one third is arable.  It has been in our family since 1934.  Today it is rented and run by our neighbour.

The farm was originally known as Trapps Green Farm. Early records show it was purchased by Henry Hunt in May 1692 and is described as a "toft or place where a messuage or tenement did heretofore stand called Lynes Field tenement" and there was “one barn lately erected on part of the premisses".  A lease of 1694 also refers to a dwelling that has been built.  Therefore it can be concluded that the farmhouse was built between 1692 and 1694.

A part of the farm comprising 76 acres.was sold to an Edward Hare in 1715 for £549.  In 1719 it was leased to John Morteboys for £43 a year. 

In the late 1880’s a “waterspout” passed over the area.  Full grown trees were uprooted in Oldberrow Woods (the woods which can be seen from the cottage) and the cross-tiles were blown off the roof.  In nearby Ullenhall a person was drowned in Watery Lane.

On the farm here are a number of “marlpits”.  These were dug during the eighteenth century as a source of lime to improve the land.  Several (the Spinney, the Poplar Pool and the Fox Pits) were dregded in the 1970’s and stocked with fish.  Another has become the home for a colony of badgers.

The Tithe Map of 1843 records that much of the farm was in arable production, with some meadow land and pasture.  Much of the land would then have been ploughed in the typical “ridge and furrow” manner.  After the repeal of the corn laws and the subsequent farming depression, arable production was replaced with production of milk and beef for nearby Birmingham. 

Two fields still show the pattern of the earlier ridge and furrow plowing.

The farm is crossed by a footpath, which leads from Tanworth-in-Arden to Redditch, and by a bridleway. During World War II a bomb fell onto the bridleway which crosses the farm. 

The area around the farm is known as Traps Green.  The Story of Tanworth in Arden by John Burman (1930) states (page 122), “In the Parish of Tanworth are various tiny groups of dwellings known as "Greens" which rarely attain the dignity even of a hamlet. They are all of ancient date, and take their names from families who lived on the spot centuries ago…,Trap's Green may take its name from Robert Trappes, who was Lay Rector in the time of Henry VIII.”  Robert Trappes was a London goldsmith who died in 1526.  

Although close to Tanworth, Traps Green falls into the Parish of Ullenhall, which was originally a part of the Wooton Wawen parish.