Mount View

Although the architectural appearance of Mount View suggests early nineteenth century Georgian in origin, there was no sign of the building on the 1840 tithe map, suggesting it was constructed in the early Victorian period. For around a century, Mount View was inextricably linked with the postal service, as it was the home of the first Farndon Post Office, where the Ince family were subpostmasters for almost all of that time.

The family already had close Farndon connections, having been residents of the village going back at least to the eighteenth century. During the mid-nineteenth century, head of the family was William Ince, a tailor, a trade carried on by his son George.