Ref NoEnUDC/10
Alt Ref NoCFAC
TitleFarm and Allotments Committee.
DescriptionFarm and Allotments Committee Minute Books. The Farm is Cuckoo Hall Farm, an arable farm in lower Edmonton near the River Lea, much of it became a sewage farm in 1905. The arable farm grew Rye grass and green vegetables. It ploughed and sowed but it did not harvest, rather it sold the growing crops for the purchaser to gather. The farm had a bailiff and farm workers plus about 8 horses. The sewage farm took all the Enfield sewage estimated at 1,000,000 gallons in 1905, rising to 2,000,000 gallons in 1917.
Admin HistoryThe farm committee took over the allotment committee's responsibilities in 1908. It continued to let out plots for individuals to grow food using their own labour. There was a statutory duty under the Smallholdings and Allotments Acts 1887 and 1908 for the borough to provide this service on a break even basis but with the proviso that development took priority. The First World War Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) authorised compulsory acquisition of land for food growing and these allotments too came under the Committee but with different rent rules. After the war the DORA allotments were eventually returned to their owners leaving an established demand for tenancies to be satisfied.
Date1895 - 1930
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