Benger Trails
Mount Pleasant Farm

There used to be a small farm half a mile north of Draycot Cerne and to the west of the Stanton Road.

According to the Victoria County History, the farm was built between 1773 and 1808. It was originally glebe land, often combined with nearby Draycot Mill. Part of the Glebe was exchanged in 1879 and the remainder was sold by the church to Lord Cowley in 1894 and became part of the Draycot Estate. It was Lot No 7 in the 1920 Draycot Auction but did not sell straight away. The farmland was later sold piecemeal and added to neighbouring farms; the farmhouse was sold separately in 1923.

The farmhouse was a small thatched cottage with a white fence in front; it can be seen in old black and white photographs, which probably date from the 1930s. It was demolished in the 1940s / 1950s when it became uneconomical to repair / rethatch the roof, and the land was divided between the neighbouring farms.