Fields.co.uk - how to buy a field

Have you ever thought how satisfying it would be to own and manage your own field?  This website is designed to help with finding a field, buying at auction and deciding how best to use it.  We have sections on how to measure the land, fencing, access and making sure you have a good water source.

There are various ways to buy fields and meadows - auctions, local estate agencies or specialist national organisations such as www.woodlands.co.uk who have a dedicated section at http://www.woodlands.co.uk/buying-a-wood/meadows-and-fields/

Although at first glance one field may look much like another the variations are enormous.  Consider these variations:

- soil type and quality of soil (land classification);

- topography and aspect - how slopey it is and which way it faces;

- rainfall;

- surrounding land;

- recent management - what has been planted how well it's been looked after;

- boundaries - whether fenced, hedged or walled;

- security - it there a gate and what other accesses are there?

- designations - how the authorities view the land such as it being a SSSI (Site of Special Scientific Interest).

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