HC Deb 22 November 1926 vol 200 cc10-1
28. Mr. T. HENDERSON

asked the Minister of Agriculture how many Orders for the compulsory acquisition of land have been made by the Cambridgeshire County Council under the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, and the Land Settlement Act, 1919, within the County of Cambridge; and whether he will indicate, as far as possible, the owners from whom such land has been compulsorily acquired, together with the names of the parishes in which the land is situated?

The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Guinness)

As the reply is rather

Parish. Acreage Owners.
Willingham 67 Jesus College, Cambridge.
Fen Ditton and Horningsea 79 Gonville and Calus College, Cambridge
Landbeach and Milton 701 University of Cambridge.
Barrington 225 Mrs. Mary Eleanor Bendyshe.
Barrington 10 Mrs. Mary Eleanor Bendyshe.
Haslingfield 75 Haslingfield Unites Charities.
Waterbeach 524 Mr. Joseph Toller.
Great Shefford and Stapleford 428 Gonville and Calus College.
*Isleham 88 Pembroke College.
*Stapleford, Babraham and Sawston 404 Trustees of late W. S. Heffer.
*Oakington 83 Trustees of March's Charity.
*Guilden Morden 134 Glebe.
*Barton and Grantchester 30 St. Catherine's College.
*Balsham 166 Miss G. M. Archer.
*Willingham 23 Mr. John Marchant.
*Fordham 187 Mrs. Margaret Bland.
*Bassingbourn 230 Mr. W. Wedgborough Clear.
*Willingham and Rampton 63 Mr. W. F. Wells.
†Dry Drayton 3 Messrs. Warrington and Sons.
* In those 10 cases the price or rent was fixed by agreement after confirmation of the Compulsory Order.
†This is a recent case and has not yet been completed.