BUCKNELL FARMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
00817614 · ltd · incorporated 1964-08-28
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Opportunity decay
approaching window · 12-months
Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.
  • · Oldest live charge 44.6y old — refinance window within 12 months
🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
—
year to Apr 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: SIC 01460
Sector: Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 81-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 80/100. Strong seller-intent signal (63/100, director aged 81). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Discharge stale live charges. 1 live charge(s) created 15+ years ago — likely paid but undischarged. Clean register. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

1 live charge · oldest 44.6y

65/100
clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

  • · Oldest live charge is 44.6 years old — likely at or near maturity.
  • · Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
  • · Legal-friction score 25/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: medium (78/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
1 charges (1/1 with lender, 1/1 with type)
90
Directors & officers
8 officers (4 active, 8 linked, 7 with DOB)
88
Ownership & PSC
3 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
97 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
100
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Apr 2024Apr 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102
Metric2025-04-302024-04-30
Average employees81000

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
1
filing
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
Last 180 days
2
filings
  • • 1 confirmation-statement
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (21 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-01-28
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  2. 2025-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  3. 2025-01-06
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  4. 2024-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  5. 2023-01-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  6. 2022-01-13
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  7. 2021-01-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  8. 2020-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  9. 2019-01-31
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  10. 2018-07-24
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  11. 2018-07-24
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  12. 2018-07-24
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  13. 2018-03-20
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  14. 2018-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  15. 2017-01-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
    accounts · AA
  16. 2008-03-26
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    MILLIGAN, Elizabeth Frances resigned
    director
  17. 1993-04-30
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    BROWN, Jeremy Charles Timothy Gavin resigned
    director
  18. 1993-04-30
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    HOWARD, Peter James resigned
    director
  19. 1993-04-30
    ➖
    MACLEOD, Rosemary resigned
    director
  20. 1981-10-08
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    Charge registered #1
    Lender: Lloyds Bank LTD
  21. 1964-08-28
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    Company incorporated
    As BUCKNELL FARMS LIMITED

Owner dependency

73/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Founder age: Director aged approximately 81 — succession pressure is live.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

70/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 81 years old. Natural succession window is now.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 62 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

3 active beneficial owners
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Mrs Catherine Muryell Hedges
Individual · British · DOB 03/1952 · age 74
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr Derek Arthur Hedges
Individual · British · DOB 01/1945 · age 81
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016
Mr James Millar Milligan
Individual · British · DOB 12/1949 · age 77
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting06/04/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated1964-08-28
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC01460 — SIC 01460

Registered office

Penrose House
67 Hightown Road
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX16 9BE
United Kingdom

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-01-31
Last made up to: 2025-04-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-14
Last: 2025-12-31

Officers (4 active · 4 resigned)

HEDGES, Catherine Muryell→
secretary
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Active
HEDGES, Catherine Muryell→
director · ~74y
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Active
HEDGES, Derek Arthur→
director · ~81y
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Active
MILLIGAN, James Millar→
director · ~77y
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Active
BROWN, Jeremy Charles Timothy Gavin→
director · ~76y · resigned 1993-04-30
Resigned
HOWARD, Peter James→
director · ~103y · resigned 1993-04-30
Resigned
MACLEOD, Rosemary→
director · ~100y · resigned 1993-04-30
Resigned
MILLIGAN, Elizabeth Frances→
director · ~73y · resigned 2008-03-26
Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

1
Total charges
1
Outstanding
1
Active lenders
Status:Lender:1 of 1 shown
TypeProperties
outstanding
Lloyds Banking Group
Lloyds Bank LTD
Legal charge1 property08/10/1981—
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Recent filings (97 total)

confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-03-25
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2026-01-28
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2025-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-13
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2025-01-06
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2024-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-01-13
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-01-13
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-04
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-01-29
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-01-05
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-01-31
confirmation-statement-with-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2020-01-10