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24 May – Prince George of Wales (later George V) becomes Duke of York. 27 June – Small Holdings Act empowers County councils to provide smallholdings for sale or rent on easy terms. [2] 4–18 July – 1892 United Kingdom general election: Unionist government loses its parliamentary majority, but remains in office. [3]
The Small Holdings Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 31) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by Lord Salisbury's Conservative government.. The Act intended to help agricultural labourers purchase small holdings of land by giving County Councils the power to advance money to the labourer up to the limit of one penny in the pound of the county rate. [1]
The Old Market Hall (Welsh: Hen Neuadd y Farchnad Blaenau Ffestiniog) is a municipal building in the Market Place, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. The structure, which also served as the Town Hall ( Welsh : Neuadd y Dref Blaenau Ffestiniog ), [ 1 ] is a Grade II listed building .
Lammas Ecovillage (Welsh: Tir-y-Gafel) is a low-impact, off-grid ecovillage in Glandwr, near Crymych in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, comprising nine households and a community hub on a 76 acres (31 ha) site. Buildings are constructed of natural materials and energy obtained from renewable sources.
Smallholding at Quarter Beach, Carmarthenshire, Wales (2011). The dwelling sits in the protected dip of the land with sheep-grazing in the foreground. Woodland and an enclosed area of planted trees are by the homestead. Local authority smallholdings in Wales are the subject of annual public reports made by the Welsh Ministers. [256]
The Land Settlement Association was a UK Government scheme set up in 1934, with help from the charities the Plunkett Foundation and the Carnegie Trust, to re-settle unemployed workers from depressed industrial areas, [1] particularly from North-East England and Wales. Between 1934 and 1939 1,100 small-holdings were established within 20 ...
A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model. [2] Definitions vary widely for what constitutes a smallholder or small-scale farm, including factors such as size, food production technique or technology, involvement of family in labor and economic impact. [ 3 ]
In 2014, there were 1855 milk-producers in Wales, an annual decline of 1.23% since 2011, but the number of cows milked was nearly static at 223,000. [16] By April 2018 the number of dairy producers in Wales had fallen further, to 1723, but the number of dairy cows (2 years old or more) had increased to 301,400 by June 2017. [17]