WW1/AC/OP2/7

Claimant: Isabella Henrietta Theodora Barnard; Occupier: Isabella Henrietta Theodora Barnard then the Bedfordshire War Agricultural Executive Committee; Owner: Isabella Henrietta Theodora Barnard; Property: Cople House Estate; Land Affected: Field No. 123, called Heilands (18.528 acres to be broken up) at Water End, Cople; Additional Information: - IHTB was owner as the widow of Thomas Henry Barnard (d. 1916), she was not a farmer and lacked the resources to undertake the cultivation, the Agricultural Executive Committee therefore entered into possession as tenants, later passing their tenancy to the Bedfordshire County Council Smallholdings Committee to sub-let allotments of the land to ex-servicemen; - mention is made by IHTB's representatives of a speech by the Minister of Agriculture indicating that land should not be cultivated unless all resources were available which, it was argued, they were not in this case [1917]; - the file includes a Land Drainage Order regarding a stream in Kempston Rural [1917]; - the file also includes correspondence regarding IHTB's tenancy of Field No. 6 in Elstow, taken over by the Committee [1918]; - the file includes a letter regarding a rookery on the Estate [1920] [ex File No. 424]

1917-1921

From: 1917 To: 1920

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Barnard, Isabella Henrietta Theodora,
Barnard, Thomas Henry

Bedfordshire County Council, ploughing, local government orders, World War One, widow, deaths, Ministry of Agriculture, local references drainage, rooks, COPLE, Cople House, Cople fields, Cople Water End, KEMPSTON RURAL, ELSTOW