National Farm Survey - no. 20, Wickhamford

C47 returned?

Yes

Acreage of Crops and Grass

Q1 - Wheat	19 acres
Q7 - Beans, winter or spring, for stock feeding	6 acres
Q12 - Mangolds	2 acres
Q14 - Kale, for fodder	1 acre
Q18 - Lucerne	1¼ acres
Q23 - Orchards, with crops, fallow, or grass below the trees	3 acres
Q27 - All Other Crops not specified elsewhere on this return or grown on patches of less than ¼ acre	2¾ acres
Q31 - Permanent Grass for Mowing this season	45 acres
Q32 - Permanent Grass for Grazing (not for Mowing this season) but excluding rough grazings	45 acres
Q33 - TOTAL OF ABOVE ITEMS, 1-32 (Total acreage of excluding Rough Grazings)	125 acres

Horses

Q81 - Horses used for agricultural purposes (including mares kept for breeding) or by Market Gardeners, Mares	2
Q88 - All Other	5
Q89 - HORSES TOTAL	7

Livestock

Q43 - Cows and Heifers in milk	20
Q44 - Cows in calf but not in milk	5
Q46 - Bulls being used for service	1
Q49 - Other Cattle, 2 years old and above Female	8
Q52 - Other Cattle, under 1 year old for rearing (excluding Bull Calves being reared for service)	10
Q54 - TOTAL CATTLE AND CALVES	44
Q70 - All other Pigs, 2-5 months	2
Q72 - TOTAL PIGS	2
Q73 - Poultry, Fowls over 6 months old	12
Q79 - TOTAL POULTRY	12

C51 returned?

No

SF returned?

Yes

Motive power on holding on 4th June

Q140 - Wheel Tractors for field work, Number, Make and Horse Power	1 - Fordson (25 Horse Power)
Q141 - Wheel Tractors for stationary work, Number, Make and Horse Power	1 - Petrol engine

Rent

Q143 - Actual rent payable during current year	£160

Length of occupation of holding

Q147 - How many years have you been the occupier of the holding?	19

B496 returned?

Yes

Tenure

QA1 - Is occupier tenant or owner?	Tenant
QA2a - If tenant, forename of owner	Miss
QA2b - If tenant, surname of owner	CARTER
QA2c - If tenant, address of owner	The Glen, Stales, Hexham
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	Bad
QB6 - Condition of farmhouse and buildings	Farmhouse - good; Buildings - good
QB7 - Condition of farm roads	Good
QB8 - Condition of fences	Fair
QB9 - Condition of ditches	Fair
QB10 - General condition of field drainage	Bad
QB11 - Condition of cottages	Good
QB12 - Number of cottages within farm area or elsewhere	2 cottages within farm area
QB13 - Number of cottages let on service tenancy	2
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

QC1 - Water supply to farmhouse	Pipe
QC2 - Water supply to farm buildings	Pipe
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	Electricity supply - public light and public power
QC6 - Is it used for household purposes and/or farm purposes?	Yes - household and farm purposes

Management

QD1 - Is farm classified as A, B or C?	A
QD3 - Condition of arable land	Good
QD4 - Condition of pasture	Good
QD5 - Use of fertilisers on arable/grass land	Arable land - adequate; Pasture land - adequate

Field information recorded by

A B Williams - 14 Jun 1942

Primary record completed by

P Brice - 5 Oct 1942