National Farm Survey - no. 28, Wickhamford

C47 returned?

Yes

Acreage of Crops and Grass

Q10 - Potatoes, main crop and second earlies	4½ acres
Q25 - Small Fruit, not under orchard trees	2 acres
Q26 - Vegetables for human consumption (excluding Potatoes), Flowers and Crops under Glass	4 acres
Q27 - All Other Crops not specified elsewhere on this return or grown on patches of less than ¼ acre	½ acre
Q28 - Bare Fallow	5 acres
Q32 - Permanent Grass for Grazing (not for Mowing this season) but excluding rough grazings	1 acre
Q33 - TOTAL OF ABOVE ITEMS, 1-32 (Total acreage of excluding Rough Grazings)	17 acres

Labour employed on 4th June

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

Livestock

Q73 - Poultry, Fowls over 6 months old	100
Q74 - Poultry, Fowls under 6 months old	80
Q79 - TOTAL POULTRY	180

C51 returned?

Yes

Acreage of small fruit

Q81 - Strawberries	½ acre
Q82 - Raspberries	¼ acre
Q83 - Currants, black	½ acre
Q84 - Currants, red and white	½ acre
Q86 - Loganberries and Cultivated Blackberries	¼ acre
Q87 - TOTAL ACREAGE	2 acres

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

SF returned?

Yes

Labour on 4th June

Q130 - Workers, Whole Time Family, Female	1

Motive power on holding on 4th June

Q140 - Wheel Tractors for field work, Number, Make and Horse Power	2 - Trusty (4½ Horse Power) & Gravely (2 Horse Power)

Rent

Q145 - If holding partly owned and partly rented, acreage and estimated rental value of land owned	4¾ acres - £7
Q146 - If holding partly owned and partly rented, acreage and rent payable of land held as tenant	12½ acres - £40 7s 0d

Length of occupation of holding

Q148a - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 1, acres and length of occupation	10½ acres - 7 years
Q148b - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 2, acres and length of occupation	1½ acres - 4 years
Q148c - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 3, acres and length of occupation	5 acres - 2 years

B496 returned?

Yes

Tenure

QA1 - Is occupier tenant or owner?	Owner and Tenant
QA2a - If tenant, forename of owner	R
QA2b - If tenant, surname of owner	BLOOMER
QA2c - If tenant, address of owner	c/o New & Saunders, Evesham
QA3 - Is farmer full-time, part-time, spare time, hobby, other type, and other occupation, if any	Part time; also Shopkeeper
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	50% heavy; 50% 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	Fair
QB6 - Condition of farmhouse and buildings	Farmhouse - not applicable; Buildings - good
QB7 - Condition of farm roads	Fair
QB8 - Condition of fences	Fair
QB9 - Condition of ditches	Good
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	None
QC3 - Water supply to fields	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 - 18 Oct 1944

Primary record completed by

P Brice - 26 Oct 1944