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Farmland quality became a matter for maps and planning in the vintage maps issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries ...

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Farmland quality became a matter for maps and planning in the vintage maps issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, chiefly the provisional Agricultural Land Classification series of the late 1960s and 1970s. The ministry's Agricultural Land Service prepared the grading with help from the National Agricultural Advisory Service and the Soil Survey of England and Wales, overprinting it on Ordnance Survey topography so that land quality can be read against familiar towns, valleys and uplands. Coverage runs from Northumberland and the Yorkshire Wolds to the Fens, the Suffolk claylands, the Cotswolds and Devon, before later surveys subdivided Grade 3. An Ordnance Survey index shows how the numbered sheets fit together.

Farmland quality became a matter for maps and planning in the vintage maps issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, chiefly the provisional Agricultural Land Classification series of the late 1960s and 1970s. The ministry's Agricultural Land Service prepared the grading with help from the National Agricultural Advisory Service and the Soil Survey of England and Wales, overprinting it on Ordnance Survey topography so that land quality can be read against familiar towns, valleys and uplands. Coverage runs from Northumberland and the Yorkshire Wolds to the Fens, the Suffolk claylands, the Cotswolds and Devon, before later surveys subdivided Grade 3. An Ordnance Survey index shows how the numbered sheets fit together.

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