National Farm Survey - no. 12, Aldington

C47 returned?

Yes

Acreage of Crops and Grass

Q10 - Potatoes, main crop and second earlies	5 acres
Q23 - Orchards, with crops, fallow, or grass below the trees	15 acres
Q26 - Vegetables for human consumption (excluding Potatoes), Flowers and Crops under Glass	57 acres
Q32 - Permanent Grass for Grazing (not for Mowing this season) but excluding rough grazings	2 acres
Q33 - TOTAL OF ABOVE ITEMS, 1-32 (Total acreage of excluding Rough Grazings)	79 acres

Labour employed on 4th June

Q35 - Wholetime regular workers, Males 21 and over	13
Q36 - Wholetime regular workers, Males 18-20	2
Q38 - Wholetime regular workers, Women and girls	1
Q41 - Casual (seasonal or part-time) workers, Women and girls	8
Q42 - TOTAL WORKERS	24

Horses

Q81 - Horses used for agricultural purposes (including mares kept for breeding) or by Market Gardeners, Mares	2
Q89 - HORSES TOTAL	2

Livestock

Q74 - Poultry, Fowls under 6 months old	12
Q79 - TOTAL POULTRY	12

C51 returned?

Yes

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

Q88 - Brussels Sprouts	32 acres
Q89 - Cabbage, Savoys, Kate and Sprouting Broccoli	7 acres
Q90 - Cauliflower or Broccoli (Heading)	2 acres
Q92 - Parsnips	1½ acres
Q95 - Onions	1 acre
Q96 - Beans, Broad	4 acres
Q97 - Beans, Runner and French	5 acres
Q98 - Peas, Green, for Market	13 acres
Q103 - Lettuce	1 acre
Q104 - Rhubarb	1½ acres
Q115 - TOTAL	68 acres

SF returned?

Yes

Labour on 4th June

Q131 - Workers, Casual, Male	Seasonal
Q132 - Workers, Casual, Female	Seasonal

Rent

Q143 - Actual rent payable during current year	£330
Q145 - If holding partly owned and partly rented, acreage and estimated rental value of land owned	23½ acres - £100
Q146 - If holding partly owned and partly rented, acreage and rent payable of land held as tenant	76 acres - £330

Length of occupation of holding

Q148a - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 1, acres and length of occupation	40½ acres - 15 years
Q148b - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 2, acres and length of occupation	22 acres - 15 years
Q148c - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 3, acres and length of occupation	36 acres - 8 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	Yes - Occupational, Offenham, Worcestershire
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% medium
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	Good
QB6 - Condition of farmhouse and buildings	Farmhouse - not applicable; Buildings - good
QB7 - Condition of farm roads	Fair
QB8 - Condition of fences	Good
QB9 - Condition of ditches	Good
QB10 - General condition of field drainage	Good
QB11 - Condition of cottages	Not applicable
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 & Stream
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?	A
QD3 - Condition of arable land	Good
QD4 - Condition of pasture	Not applicable
QD5 - Use of fertilisers on arable/grass land	Arable land - adequate

Field information recorded by

R W Sidwell - 8 Nov 1943

Primary record completed by

P BrIce - 14 Dec 1943