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skills. After the war the Association continued, encouraging people who wanted to work in horticulture or agriculture. The scheme was wound-up and all the properties privatised in 1983, by which time it was producing roughly 40% of English home grown salad crops. The residual assets of the scheme
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Settlements were set up in rural areas where each successful applicant’s family would be given a small-holding of approximately 5 acres (0.020 km), livestock and a newly built cottage. Small-holdings were grouped in communities which were expected to run agricultural production as
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The allocation of settlements to the unemployed was suspended at the outbreak of the Second World War through the necessity of increasing food production; favour was given to those already with
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were constituted as the LSA Charitable Trust, for the benefit of former tenants and to promote horticultural education.
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Bercaw, Louise Oldham; "Bibliography on Land Utilization 1918-36"; p. 1011
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Land Settlement Association Cottage Homestead settlements were situated at:
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was a UK Government scheme set up in 1934, with help from the charities the
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Land Settlement Association small-holding settlements were situated at:
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Essex Society for Archaeology and History Newsletter 154 Spring 2008
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and given agricultural training before being assigned a property.
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Annual Report of the Land Settlement Association 1937
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Index

Plunkett Foundation
Carnegie Trust
North-East England
small-holdings
settlements

cooperative
market gardens
vetted
horticultural
Abington, Cambridgeshire
Andover, Hampshire
Broadwath, Cumbria
Chawston, Bedfordshire
Crofton, Cumbria
Dalston, Cumbria
Duxbury, Lancashire
Elmesthorpe, Leicestershire
Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire
Foxash, Essex
Fulney, Lincolnshire
Harrowby, Lincolnshire
Newbourne, Suffolk
Newent, Gloucestershire
Oxcroft, Derbyshire
Potton, Bedfordshire
Sidlesham, Sussex
Snaith, Yorkshire
Stannington, Northumberland
Yeldham, Essex

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