National Farm Survey - no. 45, Wickhamford

C47 returned?

Yes

Acreage of Crops and Grass

Q10 - Potatoes, main crop and second earlies	½ acre
Q23 - Orchards, with crops, fallow, or grass below the trees	2 acres
Q24 - Orchards, with small fruit below the trees	½ acre
Q25 - Small Fruit, not under orchard trees	¼ acre
Q27 - All Other Crops not specified elsewhere on this return or grown on patches of less than ¼ acre	2 acres
Q28 - Bare Fallow	2 acres
Q33 - TOTAL OF ABOVE ITEMS, 1-32 (Total acreage of excluding Rough Grazings)	7¼ acres

Livestock

Q70 - All other Pigs, 2-5 months	3
Q72 - TOTAL PIGS	3
Q73 - Poultry, Fowls over 6 months old	60
Q74 - Poultry, Fowls under 6 months old	150
Q79 - TOTAL POULTRY	210

C51 returned?

Yes

Acreage of small fruit

Acreage of vegetables for human consumption, flowers, crops under glass

SF returned?

Yes

Motive power on holding on 4th June

Q137 - Oil or Petrol Engines, Number and Horse Power	1 (3½ Horse Power)

Rent

Q143 - Actual rent payable during current year	£29 8s 0d

Length of occupation of holding

Q148a - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 1, acres and length of occupation	13 acres - 4 years
Q148b - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 2, acres and length of occupation	5 acres - 9 years

B496 returned?

Yes

Tenure

QA1 - Is occupier tenant or owner?	Owner
QA3 - Is farmer full-time, part-time, spare time, hobby, other type, and other occupation, if any	Full time
QA4 - Does farmer occupy other land? If so, name of holding, parish and county	No
QA5 - Has farmer grazing rights over land not occupied by him? If so, nature of such rights	No

Conditions of Farm

QB1 - Percentage of area on which soil is heavy/medium/light/peaty	100% heavy
QB2 - Is farm conveniently laid out?	Yes
QB3 - Percentage of farm which is naturally good/fair/bad	100% good
QB4 - Situation in regard to road	Good
QB5 - Situation in regard to railway	Fair
QB6 - Condition of farmhouse and buildings	Farmhouse - not applicable; Buildings - fair
QB7 - Condition of farm roads	Fair
QB8 - Condition of fences	Fair
QB9 - Condition of ditches	Fair
QB10 - General condition of field drainage	Good
QB14 - Is there infestation with rabbits and moles, rats and mice, rooks and wood pigeons, other birds, insect pests?	No infestation
QB15 - Is there heavy infestation with weeds? If so, kind of weeds?	No
QB16 - Are there derelict fields? If so, acreage	No

Water and Electricity

QC2 - Water supply to farm buildings	Roof
QC3 - Water supply to fields	Well
QC4 - Is there a seasonal shortage of water?	No
QC5 - Electricity supply - public light, public power, private light, private power	No electricity supply

Management

QD1 - Is farm classified as A, B or C?	B
QD2 - Reasons for B or C (old age, lack of capital, personal failings)	Personal failings - short of labour, not too fond of work, lack of initiative
QD3 - Condition of arable land	Fair
QD4 - Condition of pasture	Not applicable
QD5 - Use of fertilisers on arable/grass land	Arable land - to some extent

Field information recorded by

R W Sidwell - 17 Dec 1942

Primary record completed by

P Brice - 20 Jan 1943