192 W1NTERSLOW, SALISBURY 



freeholders, descended from original ' squatters,' on 

 Winterslow Common. 



2. That since the time of the squatters there 

 have been various facilities for acquiring small 

 pieces of land, due to the sale of estates belonging 

 to smaller landowners, which has increased the 

 number of freeholders. 



3. That the qualities which one often finds 

 accompanying any race of freeholders, a certain 

 inherited independence, thrift, and enterprise, were 

 fostered by the absence of any large resident land- 

 lord in the neighbourhood (making the people 

 entirely dependent on their own resources), and 

 strengthened by the organizing work done by 

 Major Poore in his capacity as County Councillor, 

 with a view of inculcating ideas of individual 

 responsibility and common interest. 



The ground being thus, so to speak, prepared, 

 and the people not only clamouring for land, but 

 being in a position to profit by the acquisition of it, 

 the ultimate success of the scheme was secured by 

 the following favourable circumstances : 



4. The eminently convenient situation of the 

 farm, extending between the scattered parts of the 

 village ; and, above all 



5. The existence of the winter trade in the 

 woods, finding employment for at least one -third 

 of the holders. 



