We are celebrating 100 Years of growing local produce

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The conception of the Allotment gardens at Moss Bank, Over, dates from 1924, when William Stubbs of 'Leahlands', Swanlow Lane, sold a 4-acre (16,000 m2) field behind High Street to Winsford Urban District Council, 'for the purpose of the Allotments Act' The field, named on the 1846 Over Parish Tithe Map as 'Well Field', had been farmed since at least the 17th century, and its conversion to allotments secured its use for future generations. The site shrank in the 1960s and 1970s with the building of housing and an electricity sub-station along Moss Bank, but the acquisition in 1970 of land adjacent to Over Recreation Ground brought it back to its present size. Paperwork was signed on 23rd April 1924 and the Allotments became a reality for the people of Winsford, Cheshire.

In the late 1980s, a record-breaking pumpkin was grown on the allotments. Weighing in at 579 lb (263 kg), it held the national record for a time and a Centenary themed event in summer will formally recognise this.