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Farming - 1932
The known boundaries in c1932 are taken from the 1927 tithe assessment. They are little changed from 1920. Thomas' Farm was being farmed with Little Witley Farm, but The Elms Farm had been separated from the latter. Hollingshead had contracted slightly, but Naunton had expanded with acquisition of parts of the glebe land. The tenement at Bentley had been separated off again.
Cropping details are taken from the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain, conducted during the 1930s by vulnteers, many of them school children. The main points of note are the replacement of areas of arable with pasture in Little Witley and the increase in of orchards around Holt Heath. The first orchard at the school plantation, later to become part of Broomfield’s, had been set out and over half of Hollingshead had been planted to fruit. The Lombard poplars along the Worcester to Tenbury road that remained a feature of the landscape until the early 1990's would have been planted to protect these latter orchards.
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