Moonhills

New house built on the first parcel of land to be leased by the Beaulieu estate for Herbert Charles Humphery, Lloyds underwriter (1858-1925), who lived there until at least 1923. Widnell, p. 409: ‘Beaulieu ... had its first building lease granted in 1904 (Moonhills House, No. 246, 25” O.S. LXXXI. 2., 1908), when the whole pattern of parochial life began to change more and more as the new century advanced. For one thing, the rentiers had the greater amount of leisure time, and the farmers an increasingly harder life. Further it should be noted that some of the principal farms began to be tenanted in the late eighteen-nineties and early nineteen-twenties by Scotsmen. (e.g. Bergery, Beck, Clobb, and Penerley, Newhouse) [and they didn’t attend the parish church].’