Ashton Fields Farm: The Bruderhof Community, The Cotswold Approved School and The Cotswold Community.

Ashton Fields Farm May 2025 Members Talk | By John Whitwell for the South Cerney Trust.


On Tuesday 20th May 2025 I was invited to give a talk to the South Cerney Trust about the Bruderhof Community that occupied Ashton Fields Farm between 1936-1941. I wanted to widen the talk to include a period before the Bruderhof Community and what came afterwards, the Cotswold Approved School and then the Cotswold Community, although most of the talk would be about the Bruderhof.

Some of the slides used to illustrate my talk are self explanatory, but for others I have added additional text to reflect what I said during the presentation.

The presentation is made available here as a PDF.
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