FIRST POTATO CROP
ENGLAND'S GROWN AT BEDDIN GTON. Situated along the Wandle, a small tributary of the River Thames, which rises in Croydon and enters the parent stream .at Wandsworth, lies Beddington, a place of curious historical associations. In the 17th century the Lord of the Manor of Beddington was Sir Francis Carew, whose niece married Sir Walter Raleigh. The first crop of the potato, hrought back from Virginia hy Raleigh, was grown at Beddington, and concerning that other prize from j America, tohaci^o, also hrought by i Raleigh, there seems some ground for ! thinking that he started a snuff mill I at Beddington. ! Raleigh's last meeting With King i James I before his last expedition to | South America took place at Bedding- j ton, .and there is a legend that the ghost of the adventurer sometimes "walks" by the old yew-tree in Beddington Churchyard.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 585, 17 July 1933, Page 3
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145FIRST POTATO CROP Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 585, 17 July 1933, Page 3
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