Allotments Project

FACHRS has recently launched the ‘Allotments Project’, and would like to invite members to take part in this promising new project. The first allotments were established shortly after the Napoleonic wars in 1793 and in the 18th and 19th century were very different from those we see today.

This project is an extension of the work published by Dr. Jeremy Burchardt 'The allotment movement in England, 1793-1873. The objective is to produce a comprehensive database of allotments and other forms of popular landholdings within the date parameters for the benefit of local, family and community historians.

Members are collecting data on a systematic basis throughout the United Kingdom on a county basis with the aim of identifying as many allotments as possible, and for each site, to record key information including parish, county, date of record, date site established, name and status of landlord, number of plots, acreage, rent plus any other recorded information.  

The project will run throughout 2004/5, after which the results will be analysed and published in various media.

If you are interested in taking part in this project please contact

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