National Farm Survey - no. 17, Aldington

C47 returned?

Yes

Acreage of Crops and Grass

Q10 - Potatoes, main crop and second earlies	¾ acre
Q11 - Turnips and Swedes, for fodder	½ acre
Q12 - Mangolds	½ acre
Q23 - Orchards, with crops, fallow, or grass below the trees	40 acres
Q26 - Vegetables for human consumption (excluding Potatoes), Flowers and Crops under Glass	2 acres
Q31 - Permanent Grass for Mowing this season	11 acres
Q32 - Permanent Grass for Grazing (not for Mowing this season) but excluding rough grazings	73 acres
Q33 - TOTAL OF ABOVE ITEMS, 1-32 (Total acreage of excluding Rough Grazings)	127¾ acres

Labour employed on 4th June

Q35 - Wholetime regular workers, Males 21 and over	1
Q36 - Wholetime regular workers, Males 18-20	1
Q42 - TOTAL WORKERS	2

Horses

Q82 - Used for agricultural purposes (including mares kept for breeding) or by Market Gardeners, Geldings	2
Q89 - HORSES TOTAL	2

Livestock

Q43 - Cows and Heifers in milk	3
Q45 - Heifers in calf with first calf	4
Q48 - Other Cattle, 2 years old and above Male	9
Q49 - Other Cattle, 2 years old and above Female	8
Q50 - Other Cattle, 1 year old and under 2 Male	16
Q51 - Other Cattle, 1 year old and under 2 Female	14
Q52 - Other Cattle, under 1 year old for rearing (excluding Bull Calves being reared for service)	3
Q54 - TOTAL CATTLE AND CALVES	57
Q55 - Steers and Heifers over 1 year old being fattened for slaughter before 30th November 1941	17
Q59 - Sheep over 1 year old, Other	40
Q62 - Sheep under 1 year old, Other	18
Q63 - TOTAL SHEEP AND LAMBS	58
Q69 - All other Pigs over 5 months old	30
Q72 - TOTAL PIGS	30
Q73 - Poultry, Fowls over 6 months old	100
Q75 - Ducks of all ages	7
Q76 - Geese of all ages	4
Q79 - TOTAL POULTRY	111

C51 returned?

Yes

Stocks of hay and straw on holding on 4th June

Q125 - Hay	1 ton

SF returned?

Yes

Labour on 4th June

Q129 - Workers, Whole Time Family, Male	2

Motive power on holding on 4th June

Q137 - Oil or Petrol Engines, Number and Horse Power	1 (2 Horse Power)

Rent

Q145 - If holding partly owned and partly rented, acreage and estimated rental value of land owned	75 acres - £74
Q146 - If holding partly owned and partly rented, acreage and rent payable of land held as tenant	49 acres - £98

Length of occupation of holding

Q148a - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 1, acres and length of occupation	16 acres - 7 years
Q148b - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 2, acres and length of occupation	33 acres - 10 years
Q148c - If occupied parts of holding for different periods, Part 3, acres and length of occupation	74 acres - 3 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	Part time; also Butcher
QA4 - Does farmer occupy other land? If so, name of holding, parish and county	Yes - Occupational, Broadway & Evesham, Worcestershire
QA5 - Has farmer grazing rights over land not occupied by him? If so, nature of such rights	Grazing rights on Rudge estate land

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	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	Yes - 10 acres

Water and Electricity

QC2 - Water supply to farm buildings	Pipe
QC3 - Water supply to fields	Pipe
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 - fruit plantations are rather neglected
QD3 - Condition of arable land	Not applicable
QD4 - Condition of pasture	Fair
QD5 - Use of fertilisers on arable/grass land	Pasture land - to some extent

Field information recorded by

R W Sidwell - 10 Nov 1944

Primary record completed by

P BrIce - 1 Jul 1944