The name may have been derived from the very old mulberry tree which still exists in the garden of a house on Orchard Drive. The tree may have been planted when King James I decided to plant Mulberry Trees to develop a home grown silk industry. In 1609 he wrote to his Lord Lieutenants offering them plants at a price of ‘3 farthings each or 6 shillings for 100 plants. It is thought. Unfortunately, the industry did not flourish, possibly because they were the wrong type of mulberry for silkworms. Some of the history we have discovered so far shows that in 1798 Owned by Annie Hartley; 1918 52 acres sold to Mr. C. B. Bussey Cliffe-cum-Lund for £2,460; 1920 George Bussey, Brook Newby lived at the Farm and Charles Pickard Bussey and Charlotte Elizabeth lived in Mulberry Tree House; 1933 The Clarkson family were in residence as a report of Valerie’s accident in which she lost a leg was in the newspaper; 1939 George and Lucie Clarkson were in the farm; Edward and Agnes Hills owned and lived in the farm with their daughters Margaret and Bertha until it was sold in 1948 when the 4 acre small holding it had become was bought by Edward (Ted) Chapman.