<Ul> <Li> the middle - class Archers . Their family farm, Brookfield, is positioned as a typical example of mixed farming, combining arable, dairy, beef, and sheep . It has been passed down the generations from the original owner Dan (now deceased) to his son Phil (until his death on 13 February 2010, the oldest surviving character), and is now co-owned by Phil and Jill's four children: David, who manages it with his wife Ruth; Shula Hebden - Lloyd, married to vet Alistair and owner of the riding stables; her twin Kenton, who runs the village's only pub with his wife Jolene; and the widowed Elizabeth Pargeter . Jill lives in Brookfield with her son David, his wife Ruth and their children Pip, Josh, and Ben . </Li> <Li> the prosperous Aldridges at Home Farm . Brian, who is portrayed as a money - driven agribusinessman and his wife Jennifer . They have five children: the two Jennifer brought into their marriage: Adam (a farmer, married to chef Ian Craig) and Debbie (also a farmer, based in Hungary); two born into the marriage, Kate (a hippie entrepreneur, with a family abandoned in South Africa)) and Alice (an engineer, married to farrier Chris Carter); and schoolboy Ruairi, Brian's son by one of his affairs . Also, sometimes, Kate's daughter Phoebe and Jennifer's sister Lilian . </Li> <Li> the Bridge Farm Archers, who took their land and animals organic a generation ago . They operate a vegetable box scheme, a dairy, a farm shop and farm café . Their children are Helen, Tom, who runs the farm, and their three grandchildren: Johnny, who is the son of their deceased son John; and Henry and Jack . </Li> <Li> the Pargetters, a landed gentry family who have to make their stately home, Lower Loxley Hall, pay the bills as a public attraction . Nigel Pargetter's widow, Elizabeth née Archer, her son Freddie and his twin sister Lily . </Li> <Li> the Grundys, formerly struggling tenant farmers who were brought to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s as comic characters, but are now seen as doggedly battling adversity; </Li> <Li> the perpetually struggling Carters, their son Chris is married to Alice Aldridge and daughter Emma has successively married Will and Ed Grundy; </Li> <Li> the urban "incomers": pretentious and domineering Lynda Snell, married to the long - suffering Robert, is the butt of many jokes, although her sheer energy makes her a stalwart of village life . </Li> </Ul> <Li> the middle - class Archers . Their family farm, Brookfield, is positioned as a typical example of mixed farming, combining arable, dairy, beef, and sheep . It has been passed down the generations from the original owner Dan (now deceased) to his son Phil (until his death on 13 February 2010, the oldest surviving character), and is now co-owned by Phil and Jill's four children: David, who manages it with his wife Ruth; Shula Hebden - Lloyd, married to vet Alistair and owner of the riding stables; her twin Kenton, who runs the village's only pub with his wife Jolene; and the widowed Elizabeth Pargeter . Jill lives in Brookfield with her son David, his wife Ruth and their children Pip, Josh, and Ben . </Li> <Li> the prosperous Aldridges at Home Farm . Brian, who is portrayed as a money - driven agribusinessman and his wife Jennifer . They have five children: the two Jennifer brought into their marriage: Adam (a farmer, married to chef Ian Craig) and Debbie (also a farmer, based in Hungary); two born into the marriage, Kate (a hippie entrepreneur, with a family abandoned in South Africa)) and Alice (an engineer, married to farrier Chris Carter); and schoolboy Ruairi, Brian's son by one of his affairs . Also, sometimes, Kate's daughter Phoebe and Jennifer's sister Lilian . </Li> <Li> the Bridge Farm Archers, who took their land and animals organic a generation ago . They operate a vegetable box scheme, a dairy, a farm shop and farm café . Their children are Helen, Tom, who runs the farm, and their three grandchildren: Johnny, who is the son of their deceased son John; and Henry and Jack . </Li>

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