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Series
Ministry of Food: National Farm Survey, Individual Farm Records
Catalogue reference: MAF 32
What's it about?
MAF 32
Reports and returns on printed forms in respect of individual farms throughout the country made in connection with the National Farm Survey, 1941. Each individual farm record consists of four forms, three of which were mailed to the farmer as...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 32
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Food: National Farm Survey, Individual Farm Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1941-1943
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Description (What the record is about)
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Reports and returns on printed forms in respect of individual farms throughout the country made in connection with the National Farm Survey, 1941.
Each individual farm record consists of four forms, three of which were mailed to the farmer as part of the 1941 June 4th census return. The fourth form is that of the actual Farm Survey, the 'primary survey' only obtained by inspection and interview in the field.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The farm records are arranged by county and by parish. The parishes are arranged alphabetically within each county. The individual records are loose papers arranged by type of form and then in farm number order. Great care should be taken to keep them in their original order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Maps which show the extent and boundaries of each farm in the survey, with fields identified by their Ordnance Survey parcel numbers are held in MAF 73
For the agricultural returns parish lists referred to in this series, see MAF 65
For records of the planning and implementation of the National Farm Survey see MAF 38
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Ministry of Food, General Department, Statistics Division, 1941-1947
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1405 box(es)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Food and drink
- Census
- Farming
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Apart from regular collections, any special surveys for particular purposes are conducted by the Statistics Divisions. One notable instance was the National Farm Survey.
Between 1941 and 1943 some 300,000 farms and other agricultural holdings of five acres or more were surveyed for the National Farm Survey, a 'permanent and comprehensive record of the conditions on the farms of England and Wales' which was to form the basis of post-war agricultural planning. The survey was heralded at the time as a 'Second Domesday'.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Geraldine Beech and Rose Mitchell, Maps for Family and Local History (Kew, 2004), chapter 4. Brian Short, Charles Watkins, William Foot and Phil Kinsman, The National Farm Survey 1941-43 (Wallingford, 1999).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10433/
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Ministry of Food: National Farm Survey, Individual Farm Records
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