Catalogue description National Agricultural Advisory Service and Agricultural Development and Advisory Service: Great House Experimental Husbandry Farm, Rossendale (Lancs): Records

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Reference: MAF 345
Title: National Agricultural Advisory Service and Agricultural Development and Advisory Service: Great House Experimental Husbandry Farm, Rossendale (Lancs): Records
Description:

Records of the Great House experimental husbandry farm. The first transfer of records in this series are 06-ECG registered files, there being other numbered ECG file series for each of the experimental husbandry farms. Many papers in this series pre-date 1978. They have been re-registered from a 'GH' series used by Great House before 06-ECG.
Date: 1951-1981
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Agricultural Development and Advisory Service, Great House Experimental Husbandry Farm, 1971-1982

National Agricultural Advisory Service, Great House Experimental Husbandry Farm, 1951-1971
Physical description: 19 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Accumulation dates: 1978
Administrative / biographical background:

Great House Experimental Husbandry Farm was a high-lying Pennine farm in an industrial area. The director was assisted by a committee which advised on management of the farm, and also instigated experimental work which could not be ordinarily undertaken on a farm. The main farming and experimental activities were grassland production and utilisation, and the feeding and management of cattle, sheep and pigs. The farm consisted of about 350 acres when taken over by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in May 1951; and in 1956 Buckden Farms nearby were leased from the National Trust until 1980. The farm contained livestock (sheep and cattle, and later poultry and pigs), some grassland and woodland. Great House Experimental Husbandry Farm was closed in 1982.

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