Highfield Farm formerly known as High Field Farm does not appear to have been a farm until around the year 1890.  Earl Bathurst owned the farm house and the land.  It was part of his Whaley Estate.

1905.  A Grimes family occupied the farm as farmers.  Joseph Grimes born c.1865 at Sutton Scarsdale farmed Highfield Farm for several years.  His two children Joseph Henry Grimes was born c.1899 at Palterton and Eunice Mary b.1900 at Palterton.

1916.  William Simpson, a Farm Bailiff occupied the farm house.  He was employed by Sydney G. Grimes. Esq. farmer of Scarcliffe Grange Farm.  (Trade Directory info.) Earl Bathurst owned the farm.

1922.  Earl Bathurst owned the farm.  Simpson family still tenants.

1928.  Earl Bathurst owned the farm.  Arthur Roland Grimes occupied. (Trade Directory).

1932.  Earl Bathurst owned the farm.  Arthur Roland Grimes occupied. (Trade Directory).

1934.  Earl Bathurst owned the farm. 

1936.  Earl Bathurst owned the farm.  Capt. Houldsworth occupied occupied the farm house but Thomas Turner farmed the land.

1941.  Earl Bathurst owned the farm.  Capt. Houldsworth occupied it, but Thomas Turner farmed it.  Kelly's Directory Derbyshire 1941 states that Thos. Turner, a farmer at Elm Farm and Highfield Farm.

1942.  Earl Bathurst sold the property to the Duke of Devonshire Estate.  Capt. Houldsworth occupied the farm house but Thomas Turner farmed the land.

My research note states: 300 acres sold in the Bolsover and Scarcliffe area - 250 years to be severed in the Scarcliffe area dating back to 1693 - Earl Bathurst family estates.

1943.  25 March.  The McDonald family moved to Palterton and took up occupancy of the farm.  There were three generations, father, son and grandson.

1970.  The farmhouse was rebuilt on the site of the previous house.

19**.  My research into this farm is incomplete but on going.

2004.  The McDonald family still occupy this farm and a great grandson of the first McDonald has followed family tradition.  A second great grandson occupies and farms a Chatsworth Estate farm in the Bakewell area of Derbyshire.