FARMS IN LONDON.
There are 14,000 acres of land, apart from public gardens, lying idle in London, saj^s the superintendent of the Vacant Land Cultivation Society. Even more surprising to the majority of Londoners, however, may be the information that there are still over 3000 acres within the Metropolitan area used as farm land. Altogether London boasts eighteen genuine farms—nine of them in Woolwich —and in pre-war times had nearly 300 acres devoted to wheat growing. It has also at least one windmill still in use, though electricity now supplies its motive power. This stands in Brixton, and has been in the possession of one family of millers for over a century.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 11
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112FARMS IN LONDON. Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 11
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