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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 20th century some middling farms were divided for sale as smallholdings to market gardeners and fruit growers, 3 so … and Labourers' Land Co. bought land for letting as smallholdings in 1886, its 57 a. in Cottenham being put up … land was rented by the parish council and let out as smallholdings from 1915, 6 and the county council bought land …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Oddfellows, and Foresters between them owned 71 a. of smallholdings. 82 Local stock clubs flourished in the late …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… the parish, there was another farm of over 150 a. and five smallholdings with less than 20 a. each. 147 Manor farm was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… between 4 a. and a., some allotments had grown almost to smallholdings. In 1938 the trustees of the Hundred Acres …
A History of the County of Oxford
… farm five. 171 In 1867 there were some 23 farms and smallholdings and the cultivated area was 2,796 a., half of … years later only 21 labourers in all. 175 The number of smallholdings increased in the later 19th century: by 1896 … noted for the quality of its newly ploughed arable. Some smallholdings were poultry farms, notably Swanny Lea (7 a.) …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… small, several 19thcentury farms being no more than smallholdings. The largest farms were in Little Dawley where …