Shaw Farm, Windsor

Originally a home farm for Windsor Castle, by the early 19th century it came into the ownership of Princess Augusta Sophia.

Albert ran it as a model farm and constructed a number of buildings, including a new farmhouse and workers' dwellings.

The decision may also have been made as the construction of Albert Road around this time divided the Shaw Farm lands and may have affected its viability to a commercial tenant.

[2] Albert showed concern for the welfare of his workers and an eight-roomed house with tower was constructed north of the main farm buildings for their lodgings.

The farm was regarded as well-equipped by early-Victorian standards with stables, cattle boxes, stalls, poultry house, piggeries, a covered sheep shed and manure tank.

[1] He also bred Clydesdale horses with which he won Royal Agricultural Society of England prizes, Berkshire pigs and Cheviot sheep.

The farm was worked by six pairs of plough horses and employed thirty men full time, with more on a seasonal basis.