As a response to the agricultural depression of the 1880s Henry Brand, Viscount Hampden, then owner of the Glynde Estates, decided the future of farming lay in milk production to supply the fast expanding population of London. Home Farm in Glynde was converted to dairy production with a herd of Jersey cows being introduced and a brand new dairy was built on Glynde Hill. The most modern equipment available was installed and the dairy was intended as a model for the future of dairy farming in rural areas. It attracted interest from the local and national press with an article from The Pall Mall Gazette being reproduced in the East Sussex News and one from The Agricultural Gazette being reproduced in the Sussex Express. Viscount Hampden also built dairies at Mayfield and Horsted Keynes, other parishes where the estate had large holdings of farmland and premises also opened in London.

The dairy continued on production until the 1960s when it became a bottle cleaning depot. It finally ceased to operate in the 1980s and the buildings have now been converted to small industrial use.