were Henry, Joseph, John and Solomon Penury Cox, it was taken over by William Salmon, of the same family, maybe, as a William Salmon who had lived and died in Ash two hundred years before. The Coxes owned about two hundred and six acres, all of which, save two woods in Fawkham, were let to Salmon. His farm consisted of some hundred and forty-two acres in Ash and thirty-seven acres in Fawkham.
   William Salmon survived the bad years of the eighteen- forties and, indeed, seems to have made a modest addition to his farming acres. Then, alas, he died prematurely, leaving Ann, his wife, with a family of eight children. Fortunately, there were sons old enough to help on the farm and Ann decided to carry on. That her venture net with some success is shown by the fact that, in the ten years from 1851, the farm grew from one hundred and ninety to two hundred and. sixty acres. Even so, Ann Salmon did not make so bold as to describe herself as a farmer, but she admitted to being the occupier and to employing eight men and a boy. With three ‘Farmers Sons’ and a ‘Farmers

Daughter’ called in aid, all seemed set for a long continuance of the family tenancy, but it was not to be and, by about 1863, the Salmons were gone. There was one exception; the youngest of the family renamed, or returned, to live in aid work as a labourer on the farm where he had once been a ‘Farmers Son’.
   The Cox family’s new tenant was one of the widespread Crowhurst family, John by name, who came from Shoreham with his wife, Sarah Ann, and the first three of their growing family. Older people in the district will remember one of the Crowhurst born at West Yoke, Frederick, as for a great number of years the keeper of the village store and post office at Fawkham Green.
   In its later history, West Yoke Farm. became part of the Hohler family's Fawkham Manor estate and continued so until the estate was sold in 1949. At that time, the farm, had long been worked by the late Mr William Hollands, whose family still farm around Fawkham Green. The old house remains a farmhouse and family home, added to which it is now