title: Khirbat Bayt Far
text: # Khirbat Bayt Far
  
  Khirbat Bayt Far was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located 14 km south of Ramla. It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 7, 1948.
  
  ## History
  
  Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.
  
  ### Ottoman era
  
  In 1838, in the late Ottoman era, it was noted as a village in ruins.
  
  In 1863 Victor Guérin noted "important ruins" here. "There once stood a hamlet, the ruins of which are scattered over a feeble mound amid the bushes and tall grass."
  
  In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here: "Walls and foundations, apparently modern, with caves and a spring."
  
  ### British Mandate era
  
  In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Bait Far had a population of 28 Muslims, decreasing in the 1931 census to 26 Muslims, in a total of 11 houses.
  
  In the 1945 statistics the village had a population of 300 Muslims with a total of 5,604 dunums of land. Of this, 19 dunums were for plantations and irrigable land, 5,337 dunums were for cereals, while a total of 248 dunams were classified as non-cultivable areas.
  
  ### 1948, aftermath
  
  On 11 January 1948, Kfar Uriah was attacked by Arabs who came from neighboring Beit Jiz and Khirbet Beit Far.
  
  In 1948, Beyt Pe'er was founded on village land, it later changed its name into Tal Shahar.
  
  In 1992 the village site was described: "All that is left of the village are debris and girders heaped together in a small area. The site is ringed by carob trees. The remains of an uprooted olive grove lies to the north and east."
  
  