Allotments and Small Holdings. 
669 
one form or another of petite culture will be seen to be in existence 
in Great Britain in at least 1,300,000 separate instances. This total 
is reached as follows: — 
Small holdings other than allotments not exceeding 50 
acres in extent (now returned) ..... 
Allotments detached under 1 acre (now returned) 
/•Railway allotments detached under 1 acre (as 
returned in 1886) ...... 39,115 
Garden allotments of and over £ acre attached to 
cottages (as returned in 1886) .... 
Railway garden allotments of and over £ acre 
attached to cottages (as returned in 1886) 
Potato grounds, cow-runs (as returned in 1886) . 
Not 
in 
this 
return 
409,422 
455,005 
262,614 
6,142 
128,448 
Total 
1,300,746 
Hence, all the information now available points to the prob- 
ability that some 1,300,000 persons in Great Britain are at present 
in occupation of quantities of land not exceeding fifty acres in extent. 
Of these persons, more than a million appear to occupy less than 
five acres each. The figures, therefore, indicate a somewhat larger 
distribution of land among the people of this country than has been 
sometimes regarded as probable. 
The following Table shows the number of allotments, and of 
small holdings, in each county of Wales : — 
Number of Allotments under 1 Acre in extent, detached from Cottages, and of 
Small Holdings of \ of an Acre to 50 Acres inclusive, in each county of Wales. 
COUNTIES 
{continued) 
ALLOTMENTS 
(detached from cottages) 
SHALL HOLDINGS 
Under J 
of an 
acre 
Of i 
but under 
1 acre 
Total 
Total 
number of 
small 
holdings to 
60 acres 
(inclusive) 
Number of 
such 
holdings 
owned 
by the 
occupier! 
WALES 
No. 
No. 
No. 
No. 
No. 
Anglesey . 
625 
27 
652 
2,989 
213 
Brecon 
46H 
27 
490 
1,892 
210 
Cardigan 
379 
102 
481 
4,789 
1,090 
Carmarthen . . 
730 
14 
744 
'5,583 
573 
Carnarvon . 
319 
191 
510 
5,465 
403 
Denbigh 
81 
26 
107 
4,402 
498 
Flint .... 
64 
41 
105 
3,421 
349 
Glamorgan . 
3,219 
136 
3,355 
4,536 
411 
Merioneth . 
102 
102 
2,187 
192 
Montgomery . , 
522 
48 
570 
3,867 
329 
Pembroke . 
265 
17 
282 
4,275 
404 
Radnor . . . 
163 
1 
164 
1,255 
208 
The Table on page 670 shows the number of allotments, and of 
small holdings, in England, Wales, and Scotland, and in each county 
pf England. 
