Catalogue description File of objections to Orders to Plough; the file consists of a list of Orders to be...

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 continued 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 continued 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 - 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]

acc. 24043