The Newfield Grange Farm Survey
1942
Newfield Grange Farm – showing farm tenure, condition and management.
| Farm name | Newfield Grange Farm, Bell Busk, Skipton |
| Code no. | 399-6 |
| Tenure | |
| Farmer | TOM FOSTER |
| Acreage | 380 |
| Part time | NO |
| Other occupation | |
| Other holdings (acres) | 70 (Taylor) 15 (ASCO) |
| Owner | ASCO |
| Owner address | Oxford |
| Grazing rights |
CALTON MOOR (19.5 GATES)
SAW BANKS MOOR (21 GATES) |
| Annual rent | £463.9s |
| Years in occupation | 25 |
| Farm condition | |
| Heavy soil | |
| Medium soil | 100% |
| Light soil | |
| Peaty soil | |
| Land condition | 85% GOOD 15% FAIR |
| Situation in regard to road | GOOD |
| Situation in regard to rail | GOOD |
| Condition of farmhouse | GOOD |
| Condition of buildings | GOOD |
| Condition of farm roads | GOOD |
| Condition of fences | GOOD |
| Condition of ditches | NONE |
| Condition of field drainage | GOOD |
| Condition of cottages | NONE |
| Number of cottages | NONE |
| Infestation – animals | NONE |
| Infestation weeds | THISTLES |
| Derelict fields | NO |
| Water supply | |
| To farmhouse | PIPE |
| To farm buildings | PIPE |
| To fields | STREAM |
| Seasonal shortage | YES |
| Electricity supply | |
| Public light | YES |
| Public power | YES |
| Private light | NO |
| Private power | NO |
| Used in farmhouse | YES |
| Used on the farm | YES |
| Management of farm | |
| Classification (a/b/c) | A |
| Reason for b & c | |
| Condition of arable land | GOOD |
| Condition of pasture | GOOD |
| Use of fertiliser on arable land | TO SOME EXTENT |
| Use of fertiliser on pasture land | TO SOME EXTENT |
| Author | |
| Field information provided by | ROBERT SWALES |
| Record compiled by | C.S. FOSTER |
| Date recorded | 30th April 1943 |
Newfield Grange Farm showing crops and grass grown, stock reared, labour and motive power available.
| Farm name | Newfield Grange Farm, Bell Busk, Skipton |
| Crops | |
| Wheat | |
| Barley | 4 |
| Oats | 26 |
| Potatoes | 2 |
| Turnips | 4 |
| Mangolds | 4 |
| Sugar beat | |
| Kale | 4 |
| Grass | |
| Grass for mowing | 60 |
| Grass for grazing | 200 |
| Total acreage | 300 |
| Rough grazing | 80 |
| Cattle | |
| Cows in milk | 60 |
| Cows in calf | 40 |
| Bulls (including bull calves) | 7 |
| Other cattle | 36 |
| Total cattle & calves | 140 |
| Steers & heifers (fatt’d for slaughter) | 18 |
| Sheep | |
| Breeding ewes | 250 |
| Rams | 8 |
| Other sheep over 1 year old | 42 |
| Ewes under 1 year old | 300 |
| Total sheep & lambs | 600 |
| Pigs | |
| Sows in pig | |
| Sows for breeding | |
| Boars | |
| Other pigs | 12 |
| Total pigs | 12 |
| Poultry | |
| Fowls over 6 months | 400 |
| Fowls under 6 months | 50 |
| DUCKS | |
| Geese | 6 |
| Turkeys over 6 months | 3 |
| Turkeys under 6 months | 12 |
| Total poultry | 471 |
| Labour | |
| Reg workers-male | 2 |
| Reg workers-female | 2 |
| Part-time-male | |
| Part-time-female | |
| Motive power | NONE |
| Steam engine | |
| Gas engine | |
| Petrol engine | 1 (1.5 H.P.) |
| Electric motors | 1 (3.5 H.P.) |
| Horses | |
| Horses used for agriculture | 4 |
| Other horses | 2 |
| Tractors | |
| Tractors for field work | 1 (25 H.P.) FORDSON |
| Stationary tractors |
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