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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]
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]
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 ]
The peak of plotland development was between the wars. [5] Immediately after WWI there was a "dire shortage" of housing, so people used obsolete army huts, converted buses, caravans, railway carriages, [6] coal barges, [7] and kit-built wooden chalets [8] to create "temporary shanties", taking advantage of the "depressed prices of agricultural land and the absence of planning controls."
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 ...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-26772-2. (information here) Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle The Pioneers and Progress of English Farming. 1888. English Farming, Past and Present. 1912. and 5 later editions; Thorold Rogers A History of Agriculture and Prices in England from 1259 to 1793 (1866–1902), 7 vols.
The Land Settlement (Facilities) Act 1919 was a piece of legislation passed in the United Kingdom following World War I.The act allowed local governments (namely county councils) to provide smallholdings (farmland) to veterans of the war.
Church Farm in Norfolk, England Typical plan of a medieval English manor, showing the use of field strips. A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. [1]