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Early Hay Barns in the South of England: A Sixteenth-Century Example?

Abstract Although work has been published on the importance of hay barns in the Midlands and the north of England during the eighteenth century and later, southern hay barns have been relatively neglected. This paper seeks to restore the balance by discussing three southern hay barns of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Then attention is drawn to a rich source of information on medieval hay barns in the south. Finally arguments are advanced for believing that an extraordinary early-sixteenth-century farm building in Hampshire was built as a hay barn.