National Farm Survey - no. 22, Aldington

C47 returned?

Yes

Acreage of Crops and Grass

Q10 - Potatoes, main crop and second earlies	¼ acre
Q25 - Small Fruit, not under orchard trees	1¾ acres
Q26 - Vegetables for human consumption (excluding Potatoes), Flowers and Crops under Glass	4¼ acres
Q27 - All Other Crops not specified elsewhere on this return or grown on patches of less than ¼ acre	¾ acre
Q33 - TOTAL OF ABOVE ITEMS, 1-32 (Total acreage of excluding Rough Grazings)	7 acres

Labour employed on 4th June

Q36 - Wholetime regular workers, Males 18-20	1
Q38 - Wholetime regular workers, Women and girls	2
Q41 - Casual (seasonal or part-time) workers, Women and girls	2
Q42 - TOTAL WORKERS	5

Horses

Q82 - Used for agricultural purposes (including mares kept for breeding) or by Market Gardeners, Geldings	1
Q89 - HORSES TOTAL	1

Livestock

Q73 - Poultry, Fowls over 6 months old	8
Q74 - Poultry, Fowls under 6 months old	9
Q79 - TOTAL POULTRY	17

C51 returned?

Yes

Acreage of small fruit

Q81 - Strawberries	¼ acre
Q82 - Raspberries	½ acre
Q86 - Loganberries and Cultivated Blackberries	1 acre
Q87 - TOTAL ACREAGE	1¾ acres

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

SF returned?

Yes

Labour on 4th June

Q129 - Workers, Whole Time Family, Male	1

Rent

Q143 - Actual rent payable during current year	£20 6s 0d
Q146 - If holding partly owned and partly rented, acreage and rent payable of land held as tenant	7 acres - £20 6s 0d

Length of occupation of holding

Q148a - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 1, acres and length of occupation	3 acres - 21 years
Q148b - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 2, acres and length of occupation	2½ acres - 10 years
Q148c - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 3, acres and length of occupation	1½ acres - 4 years

B496 returned?

Yes

Tenure

QA1 - Is occupier tenant or owner?	Tenant
QA2a - If tenant, forename of owner	H
QA2b - If tenant, surname of owner	ASHWIN
QA2c - If tenant, address of owner	Bretforton Manor, c/o Agent, E G Righton, Evesham
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% medium
QB2 - Is farm conveniently laid out?	Moderately
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	Good
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
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 - 2 Jan 1943

Primary record completed by

P BrIce - 12 Jan 1943