The Land Settlement Association was a UK Government scheme set up in 1934, with help from the charities the Plunkett Foundation and the Carnegie Trust, to re-settle unemployed workers from depressed industrial areas,"Land Settlement Association"
University of Reading. Retrieved 18 August 2011 particularly from

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and Wales. Between 1934 and 1939 1,100 small-holdings were established within 20 settlements. A further five settlements of "Cottage Homesteads" of about half an acre were established from 1937 for unemployed men, who could continue to claim assistance. Cottage on South Road - geograph

Settlements were set up in rural areas where each successful applicant’s family would be given a small-holding of approximately , livestock and a newly built cottage. Small-holdings were grouped in communities which were expected to run agricultural production as

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s, with materials bought and produce sold exclusively through the Association. Applicants were

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and given agricultural training before being assigned a property. The allocation of settlements to the unemployed was suspended at the outbreak of the Second World War through the necessity of increasing food production; favour was given to those already with

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skills. After the war the Association was incorporated within a

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scheme for statutory provision of smallholdings designed as a first step for those going into agricultural production."Land Settlement Association"
peterclarke.com (Dr Peter Clarke). Retrieved 18 August 2011 The scheme was wound-up and all the properties privatised in 1983, by which time it was producing roughly 40% of English home grown salad crops. The residual assets of the scheme were constituted as the LSA Charitable Trust, for the benefit of former tenants and to promote horticultural education.

Settlements

Land Settlement Association small-holding settlements were situated at: * Abington, Cambridgeshire *

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* Broadwath, Cumbria"Land Settlement Association"
Cumbria County Council - Archives. Retrieved 18 August 2011 * Chawston, Bedfordshire * Crofton, Cumbria *

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* Duxbury, LancashireHayward, Stuart
"Oxcroft Settlement"
in ''Bolsover a Ripple in Time'', p.63. Retrieved 18 August 2021 * Elmesthorpe, Leicestershire * Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire * Foxash, Essex * Fulney, Lincolnshire * Harrowby, Lincolnshire * Newbourne, Suffolk * Newent, Gloucestershire * Oxcroft, Derbyshire * Potton, Bedfordshire, * Sidlesham, Sussex * Snaith, Yorkshire * Stannington, Northumberland * Yeldham, Essex Land Settlement Association Cottage Homestead settlements were situated at:Annual Report of the Land Settlement Association 1937 *

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* Long Lawford, Warwickshire *

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* Caversham, Berkshire * Elmesthorpe, Leicestershire

References

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