Westmoor Farm. Westmoor Farm is part of the Cambridgeshire County Farm Estate and is situated in the heart of The Fens, 1.5 miles west of the market town of Chatteris. The Munns family has farmed here since October 1959 when my parents Alice and Lionel Munns took on the tenancy of a 21 acre smallholding and an old farmhouse from the Isle of Ely County Council. Funding was provided from a £100 pools win and extended credit from suppliers. I am proud to still have in my treasured possession my parents original tenancy agreement from all those years ago.
The farm now consists of about 500 acres of arable cropping and is run as a family business by George, Jane and Lucy Munns. The farm has gained an enviable reputation for the conservation work undertaken.
On our main farm we grow the usual range of crops that you would normally find on a traditional Fenland arable farm such as Sugar beet, Winter Wheat, Spring Barley, Potatoes and of course Oilseed Rape. All our sugar beet is grown under contract for British Sugar. The Beet is lifted in the autumn and sent to Wissington Beet sugar factory just outside Downham Market
