• Reference
    WW1/AC/OP1/2
  • Title
    File of objections to Orders to Plough; the file consists of a list of Orders to be suspended and a list not to be suspended; and the original Order(s), (which state that the War Agricultural Executive Committee ordered a certain number of acres at a certain number on the Ordnance Survey Map 1901 in a certain parish to be broken up and ploughed to produce food) together with objections by the farmer concerned - the objections give the following details: name of occupier; parish; acreage of farm (divided into arable and pasture); acreage in respect of which the Order was served; whether fallows were in a satisfactory state; total number of working horses on the farm; total labour employed (divided into men, women, boys under 18, soldiers and prisoners-of-war); further material may include a copy of the Ordnance Survey map showing the land involved and correspondence; the following individuals and farms are included: - Mark Abraham and Sons - Broom Hills Farm, Leighton Buzzard; - Robert Addie - Long Lane Farm, Toddington; - Sir W.R.D.Adkin - Shooting Syndicate land in Knotting; - Thomas Allen - Highfields Farm, Goldington; - J.H.Ashby - Bragenham Farm, Soulbury [Buckinghamshire] (land in Heath & Reach); - Henry Banks - Hill Farm, Little Staughton and Manor Farm, Pertenhall ; - T.G.Barnard - Red Cow Farm, Dunstable and Lynch Farm, Kensworth; - Frank Bates - Bushmead, Eaton Socon; - John M.Britten - Overend Green, Heath & Reach; - John Barnard Brown - Road Farm, Houghton Conquest; - Groom Bunker - Trinity Hall, Hockliffe (land in Chalgrave); - W.J. & F.G.Bunker - Thorne Farm, Chalgrave; - John Smith Campbell - Marston Park, Marston Moretaine; - W.Campbell - Lidlington; - Charles Capon - Middle Field Farm, Henlow; - George Chandler - Hill Farm, Markyate; - Christopher Claridge - Heath & Reach; - C.R.Clarke - Lower Farm, Swineshead; - J.W.Coggins - Top Farm, Upper Dean; - A.J.Cook and Thomas John Cook - Brewer's Hill, Dunstable (land in Houghton Regis); - Dan Cook - Sewell Farm, Dunstable (land in Houghton Regis and Totternhoe); - Edwin Charles Cooper - Willington (land in Cardington); - Henry Corbett - Backnoe End Farm, Bolnhurst (land in Thurleigh); - Thomas J.Cranfield - Lye Mead Farm, Millbrook; - J.W.Crisp - Brickhill Pastures, Ampthill; - James Crouch - Segenhoe Manor Farm, Ridgmont; - Thomas Dancer - Rammemere Farm, Heath & Reach (land in Heath & Reach and Soulbury) [Buckinghamshire]); - Frank Dollimore - Orchard Farm, Pulloxhill; - George Dunkley - Houghton Conquest; - David Eames - Bury Farm, Stanbridge; - J.Evans - Clay Hill Farm, Westoning; - A. & L.Fensome - Bidwell Farm, Houghton Regis; - Miss A.Field - Ampthill; - William George Fisher - Cleathill Farm, Ravensden (land in Wootton and Ravensden); - Charles Anstee Foll - Chalgrave Manor; - G.A.Fountain - Cowbridge Farm, Toddington; - William Freeman - Checkley Wood Farm, Hockliffe (land in Heath & Reach); - Charles H.Gardner - Rectory Farm, Pulloxhill; - John Giles - Horsehills Farm, Harlington; - J.N.Godfrey - Sharpenhoe (land in Streatley and Harlington); - Albert James Green and Walter William Green - Dell Farm, Dunstable (land in Houghton Regis); - Walter Green - Manor Farm, Billington; - John Griffin - The Old Farm, Stanbridge; - Anthony Harris - Dairy Farm, Silsoe (land in Silsoe and Pulloxhill); - Arthur William Harris - Eversholt; - Samuel Charles Harrison - Hill Farm, Salph End, Renhold; - George Heady - Stud Farm, Stanbridge; - Robert Hedges - Manor Farm, Potsgrove; - Joseph Hill - Hill Farm, Potsgrove; - Harry Holben - Grounds Farm and Leonard's Farm, Hockliffe; - Edmund Holt - Trayles Field Farm, Ravensden; - Hubert Edgar Horsford - Dean; - William Hull - Church Farm, Roxton; - Thomas Humbley - Bushmead Farm, Eaton Socon; - George Humphreys - Brogborough Park Farm, Ridgmont (land in Ridgmont and Lidlington); - Charles Ibbott - College Farm, Oakley; - Emily Inwards - Church Farm, Hockliffe; - Charles Jordan - Herne Dairy Farm, Toddington; - Charles A.Joyce - Salph End Farm, Renhold; - John Keech - Cardington; - Edgar E. Kestell and Sidney S.Kestell - Kingswood Farm, Heath & Reach; - Nathaniel King - Church Farm, Colmworth - W.C.Knowlton - Podington; - William Labrum - Green Farm, Billington; - Christopher Charles Lancaster - Cardington; - W.W.Lowe - Park Farm, Steppingley; - F.A.Mardle - Bidwell, Houghton Regis; - Benjamin Measures - Grange Farm, Dean (land in Melchborne and Dean); - A.E. & G.F.Muckleston - Grounds Farm, Hockliffe; - George Newman - Mount Pleasant Farm, Stagsden (land in Turvey); - Alfred Nixon - Channels End Farm, Colmworth; - Walter Northwood - Wilstead; - John Olney - Bull Farm of Hockliffe (land in Tilsworth); - Arthur Panter - Cowridge End Farm, Round Green, Luton (land in Stopsley and Limbury); - William Panter - Luton, butcher (land in Limbury); - H.J.Peppitt - Sow Farm, Colmworth; - Edward E.Phillips - King's Farm, Maulden; - James Price - Manor Farm and Bray Farm, Tilsworth; - Frederick Ray - Wootton Pillinge Farm, Wootton; - H.J.Ream - Tempsford (land in Everton); - Ralph Maxey Riglen - Vale Farm, Lidlington; - George Roff - New House Farm, Billington; - W.D. & T.W.Ross - Cross End Farm, Thurleigh; - William Saunders - Church Farm, Eggington; - William E.Seabrook - Beadlow, Shefford; - William Simmons - Grounds Farm, Hockliffe; - William Simons - Little Birchfields Farm, Great Barford (land in Great Barford and Renhold); - George Ernest Spavins - Cardington; - A.J.Stanbridge - Hill Farm, Houghton Conquest; - Thomas Stanbridge - Church End Farm, Eversholt; - Frederick Stanton - Channels End and Rectory Farms, Colmworth; - Thomas Stanton - Ravensden; - Arthur H.Sturges and Nathaniel Sturges - Beckerings Manor Farm, Ridgmont; - Lt.Col.T.J.Sunderland - Ravensden Grange; - Arthur Thomas Swales - Romp Hall Farm, Thurleigh; - Arthur Syratt - Centre Farm, Battlesden; - Mrs.Thomson - Manor Farm, Thurleigh; - Harry Newport Topham - Honeydon, Eaton Socon; - Julia Ellen Topham - Hall End Farm, Thurleigh; - F.H.Tucker - Red Lion Farm, Elstow; - Thomas Wagstaff - Scald End Farm, Thurleigh; - T.Waite - Crab Tree Farm, Wavendon [Buckinghamshire] (land in Wavendon and Aspley Guise); - E.J.Walker - Keysoe Grange (land in Little Staughton); - George Walker - Jackman's Farm, Goldington; - S.H.Whitbread - Southill (land in Eastcotts); - John Edward White - Kempston (land in Wootton and Marston Moretaine); - Hannah Williams - Eastfields, Melchborne; - Charles Wood - Poplar Farm, Totternhoe; - C.Woods - Tilsworth; - Frederick Yirrell - Hill Farm, Stanbridge; - Thomas Yirrell - Hill Farm, Stanbridge. [ex WAO 9/1-2]
  • Date free text
    1918 - 1919
  • Production date
    From: 1918 To: 1919
  • Level of description
    item