M.F. STRAWSON LIMITED
Company number 00593315 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
M.F. Strawson Limited represents a well-capitalised, conservatively-managed diversified rural estate business that has successfully transitioned from pure arable farming into a multi-stream enterprise encompassing property development, renewable energy, and leisure operations. Its near-zero gearing and £37.8M net asset base provide exceptional resilience against the sector headwinds explicitly acknowledged by the directors — rising input costs, interest rate pressure, and the ongoing BPS transition. The primary strategic consideration is the concentration of value in land and property assets, which, while appreciating over the long term, creates balance sheet sensitivity to any correction in agricultural or commercial property values.
Shareholders' funds
£37,784,090
Balance sheet as at 2025-06-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1957-11-08
- Employees
- 38 (2025 accounts · was 36 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Pyewipe Farm, Aylesby Rd Great Coates, Grimsby Lincs, DN37 9NU
- Postcode
- DN37 9NU
- Capital
- 6,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-06-30
- Next due by
- 2027-03-31
- Financial year end
- 30 June
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-07-30
- Next due by
- 2027-08-13
Nature of business (SIC)
- 1110 Growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds
- 68100 Buying and selling of own real estate
Officers 6 current · 2 resigned
Group structure 4 subsidiaries
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BH BARROW LLP Dissolved
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BH MOULTON LLP Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 169 similar companies in DN
3rd largest employer among its local peers (38 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1957.
Competitors Doncaster
This company ranks 1 among growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds in Doncaster.
Property in England & Wales 38 titles
- Freehold
- 31
- Leasehold
- 7
- Most recent registration
- 2026-05-14
- Price paid, where recorded
- £7,437,999
- Where
- North East Lincolnshire (13), Lincolnshire (10), Nottinghamshire (5)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HS419997 | North East Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2026-05-14 | — |
| LL171071 | Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2025-02-11 | £1,610,000 |
| LL321101 | Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2025-02-11 | — |
| HS414021 | North East Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2024-07-22 | — |
| LL15474 | Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2024-03-08 | £925,000 |
| HS411887 | North East Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2023-11-28 | — |
| SYK433824 | South Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2023-06-29 | £1,575,000 |
| LL271677 | Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2023-03-03 | — |
| LL313239 | Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2023-03-03 | — |
| HS399944 | North East Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2022-11-28 | — |
| SY642929 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2022-06-30 | — |
| SY643953 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2022-06-30 | — |
| SY793532 | Surrey | Leasehold | 2022-06-30 | — |
| DU162448 | County Durham | Freehold | 2021-10-05 | — |
| SYK437965 | South Yorkshire | Leasehold | 2019-07-25 | £3,249,999 |
| HS392531 | North East Lincolnshire | Leasehold | 2018-08-02 | — |
| HS390064 | North East Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2017-12-19 | — |
| HS379324 | North Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2015-05-15 | — |
| NT477027 | Nottinghamshire | Leasehold | 2011-11-22 | — |
| HS363808 | North East Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2011-11-14 | — |
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