Ploughing match 1842 held in a field owned by John Miles Esquire of Leigh Court, near Beggars Bush on the road to Portishead. A report stated that there were around 1000 gentlemen on horseback, around 5000 spectators and 46 ploughs in action, all finding work difficult on the 20 acre field because of the very stony ground. (A crafty way for the upper class land-owner to get his stony land ploughed by paying competitors). The competition was part of the Royal Agricultural Society's annual meeting.

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