200 ACRES ABANDONED CHRISTIAN VILLAGE left to rot

The Bruderhof...

The site’s first notable point in history is 1936, when 3 members of the Bruderhof were in search of land to set up their community in England. The Bruderhof is a self-sufficient Christian community that was founded in Germany in the 1920s. They bought a 200 acre farm in Ashton Keynes and over the next 5 years the community and farm grew as more Bruderhof members escaped the Nazi regime. The Nazis were persecuting Bruderhof members due to their pacifist beliefs. By 1938, over 200 individuals from different nationalities, including British, were living a self-sufficient lifestyle on the land. The Cotswolds Bruderhof cared for destitute adults, Jewish refugees and orphaned children. In 1940, pressured by anti-German feeling in England during the Second World War, the Bruderhof sold up and moved to Paraguay.

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School

In the early 1940s the Farm was owned by the Home Office and became a boys’ Approved School. Approved Schools are residential schools for young offenders or children who were deemed beyond parental control. Youths could be sent to an Approved School if they were found guilty of an offence which, in the case of an adult, would be punishable by a prison sentence. Some young people were also sent there for running away from care. Boys arrived from all over the country to the Cotswold School after being placed at the school by juvenile courts. Life was tough for the young people living on the plot. One boy was caned on each hand for walking out of line on his way to chapel. When the cell blocks were gutted, graffiti saying “I can’t stand any more of this. I think I’m going mad. If they don’t let me out I will kill myself.” was found.

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