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A History of the County of Essex
… a standard virgate unit of 30 acres. 81 There were also 27 smallholdings ranging from individual curtilages up to 5 a. 1 … 50 a. and 300 a., 15 between 5 a. and 50 a., and 17 smallholdings between 1 a. and 5 a. A higher proportion was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… for quarrymen, and there were 5 houses for county council smallholdings, built to accord to the national 'Type 2' but … north-east of Ditton, 111 a. in all, for ex-servicemen's smallholdings. 60 Five (1038 a.) were created, those north of … into a cottage tenancy, adding land to the remaining two smallholdings. From 1990 the council offered daily work on a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… they lived on estates whose owners were prepared to let smallholdings or allotments to the more enterprising … the Kenyons, 52 was evidently sympathetic 53 and labourers smallholdings were a feature of the Hawkstone estate, 54 … a constant preoccupation of those advocating labourers' smallholdings that a man's land should not 'interfere with …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 40 rather than individuals or families. The county council smallholdings estate, for example, extended to just under … in the fact that the majority of the county council's smallholdings schemes, established after 1908, were north of … were 11 properties covering 2,064 a., divided into 93 smallholdings. 11 Between the wars another 30 properties were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… farms, one attached to the 'mansion house', and up to six smallholdings of 30-70 a. 24 In the 1670s, when it comprised … 154 a. of arable. 25Of at least ten farms in 1706, besides smallholdings, only two were rented at over £100 each, while …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Council bought 103 acres in Dunston and established eight smallholdings, each with a house. 11 On the west side of the …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… In 1956, although there was a similar number of farms and smallholdings, there were fewer smaller and more larger … into larger units continued and the number of farms and smallholdings was much reduced. In 1986, in a total of 58 …