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A History of the County of Shropshire
… European market' planned for 1992 drew nearer. 10 British farm incomes began to falter about the same time. In 1982 … useful option in the event of cereal prices falling. 11 As farm incomes were checked and the value of agricultural land … 14 Large-scale drainage schemes enhancing the value of farm land were resented by some as unwarranted interference …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… if inclosed they might have been made more profitable. Farm buildings were well constructed and in good repair on … such as foreign competition and the fall in the prices of farm produce. On the other hand, high railway rates do not … and Barrington Duchess 31st might in 1906 be seen on his farm. The last-named had an extraordinary record, winning the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… be an impossibility. The number of sheep and cattle a farm can keep almost entirely depends on these two crops, and … they are not more so than any other crop sold off the farm, and the potato quarter is at any rate always clean and … no hay and straw is proof positive that the produce of a farm should be consumed upon it. There are exceptional …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a supply of straw, fodder, and food for consumption on the farm and for the restoration of grassland depleted by the … to the lower proportional working costs of the large farm. This advantage, whether accompanied by the extinction … flock, fold, and shepherd. Without these the family farm was not an economic proposition, for the simple reason …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to inclosure in an area where the cost of new farm roads on wet deep soil had made it slow. 7 Activity, … there can be no doubt. In 1790, for example, one farm of 75 acres had 89 separate parcels of land scattered … in pieces of less than 1 acre each. In 1804 another farm of 146 acres was found to have 98 pieces. 32 While such …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in 1870 there were 83,475, in 1954 there were 217,950. The farm horse has, of course, become a rarity in that time. 8 … of both horse and human labour, bad and insufficient farm buildings, and the lack of any compensation for … income seems to have formed only 20 per cent. of the net farm product, while the landlord took 45 per cent. In other …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the ancient seat of the Sherburne family, and of the farm, on moderate terms, from the late Thomas Weld, Esq.; and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and West Holcombe, possibly a settlement around Durborough Farm at the head of the valley, was named in the 15th … the valley in 1833. 13 By the 20th century only Durborough Farm and two cottages, one probably medieval, the other with 16th-century origins, survived. 14 Durborough Farm is a Tshaped house in which the short central arm …
A History of the County of Somerset
… was reduced to a landless cottage while Postridge farm included land in Charlinch and amounted to over 200 a. Lower Aisholt farm was then 180 a. and Higher Aisholt 110 a. 89 A further 9 … 92 By 1919 farms had been further amalgamated; one old farm house was used for storage and a cottage as a fowl …
A History of the County of Somerset
… merging with it by the 18th century. 61 In 1920 Postridge farm was sold by E. A. V. Stanley to Somerset county council, the owner in 1986. 62 Postridge Farm has a double-pile plan incorporating a south range of … Postridge in 1833 but the land had been added to Postridge farm. 71 The house had gone by 1887. 72 The house at …