Landed estates in Dorset since 1870 : their survival and influence
Dorset retains ten of the twelve landed estates owning 10,000 acres listed in the 1883 edition of John Bateman's Survey, most still with considerable acreages, in a county which remains predominantly rural. Yet historians saw the attempted sales of land in England between 1918 and 1921 as a watershed beyond which agricultural landownership ceased to have any importance. Part I of this thesis uses extensive sales catalogue data to establish a chronology of attempted sales from Dorset landed estates, and seeks to isolate the economic, social, political and personal factors which led to land being put on the market. Data is then used, in the main from the 1942 War Agricultural Cultivations subcommittee minutes, to discover the results of earlier attempts to sell, and the emergence of new agricultural landowners. MAFF data on holdings sizes confirms a picture of the rebuilding of estates post World War Two. Throughout, exemplification comes from privately and publicly held estate archives. Part H uses estate archive material supplemented by minutes. from Dorset County Council and District Council Committees; from the Dorset branch of the Council for the Preservation (then Protection) of Rural England, and Forestry
Waymark, Janet
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Landed estates in Dorset since 1870 : their survival and influence. Dorset retains ten of the twelve landed estates owning 10,000 acres listed in the 1883 edition of John Bateman's Survey, most still with considerable acreages, in a county which remains predominantly rural. Yet historians saw the attempted sales of land in England between 1918 and 1921 as a watershed beyond which agricultural landownership ceased to have any importance. Part I of this thesis uses extensive sales catalogue data to establish a chronology of attempted sales from Dorset landed estates, and seeks to isolate the economic, social, political and personal factors which led to land being put on the market. Data is then used, in the main from the 1942 War Agricultural Cultivations subcommittee minutes, to discover the results of earlier attempts to sell, and the emergence of new agricultural landowners. MAFF data on holdings sizes confirms a picture of the rebuilding of estates post World War Two. Throughout, exemplification comes from privately and publicly held estate archives. Part H uses estate archive material supplemented by minutes. from Dorset County Council and District Council Committees; from the Dorset branch of the Council for the Preservation (then Protection) of Rural England, and Forestry
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