§ 55. Mr. Baldwinasked the Minister of Agriculture what acreage of land is being farmed in each county by agricultural committees, common land, and other land formerly occupied either by tenants or owner-occupiers, respectively.
Mr. T. WilliamsThe reply contains a number of figures which I give below. I cannot say what part of the acreage farmed direct by committees is common land as opposed to land formerly occupied by tenants or owner-occupiers, but committees have under their control a total area of about 22,000 acres of common, some of which is let to occupiers under licence.
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LAND FARMED DIRECT BY COUNTY AGRICULTURAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES IN ENGLAND AND WALES: 1ST APRIL, 1949. County and Total Area Farmed by Committee. England Acres Beds. 2,861 Berks. 671 Bucks. 3,548 Cambridge 2,609 Cheshire 1,707 Cornwall 3,840 Cumberland 3,899 Derby 2,127 Devon 3,952 Dorset 2,069 Durham 2,145 Essex 10,949 Gloucestershire 4,908 Herefordshire 1,310 Herts. 4,020 Huntingdonshire and Peterborough 3,252 Isle of Ely Nil Isle of Wight 264 Kent 8,381 Lancs. 2,121 Leics 3,378 Lincs. (Holland) Nil Lincs. (Kestoven) 1,004 Lincs. (Lindsey) 3,067 Middlesex 2,682 Norfolk 1,143 Northants 2,980 Northumberland 24,103 Notts. 7,058 Oxfordshire 20 Rutland 1,403 Shropshire 856 Somerset 6,215 Southampton 941 Staffs 1,501 Suffolk East 3,119 Suffolk West 7,420 Warwickshire 7,487 Westmorland 3,897 Wilts. 4,043 Surrey 8,060 Sussex East 12,800 Sussex West 7,481 Worcs. 1,289 Yorks (East R.) 3,372 Yorks (North R.) 3,118 Yorks (West R.) 3,841 Wales Anglesey Nil Brecon 867 Cardigan 3,435 Carmarthen 6,678 Caernarvon 878 Denbigh 2,187 Flint 210 Glamorgan 1,159 Merioneth 1,025 Monmouth 1,091 Montgomery 3,232 Pembroke 1,734 Radnor 3,098 Total 212,505