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Home Farm, Old Dalby

farmhouse in Broughton and Old Dalby, Melton, Leicestershire, England, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ26642930 ↗
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Home Farm is an historic farmhouse in Old Dalby, Leicestershire, England. It was built in 1635 and is a Grade II listed building. Dating to the Georgian period, it was substantially enlarged in 1835, when it became home farm to the nearby Old Hall.

The building stands directly opposite the church of St John the Baptist, a Grade II* listed building.

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The public source identifies “Home Farm, Old Dalby” as farmhouse in Broughton and Old Dalby, Melton, Leicestershire, England, UK. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Home, Farm and Dalby.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1635, 1835—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Home, Farm and Dalby providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26642930. Authority coordinates are 52.806, -1.002. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1635 and 1835.

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This entry incorporates text from “Home Farm, Old Dalby” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.