The Trust supports research into the history of Blackden through the study of the landscape, architecture and documents; through survey and excavation; through the evidence of material culture and by listening to the stories of people who have lived here.

The field walking at Bridge Farm in April 2008 was the first of several we shall be organising in the area. The recording, dating and correlating of finds will give us an understanding of the daily lives of the people in the past.

A long term project will be the development of a herb garden around The Old Medicine House to grow herbs that would have been in use at the time of the building of the house.

We also plan to grow the seventeen gooseberry cultivars developed by Frank Carter, who was born at Toad Hall and lived all his life in Blackden.