Tuesday, 14 August 2018

Perhaps as much as 50 per cent of all agricultural land ... [was] devoted to game conservation

By 1911 there were around 25,000 keepers employed on estates in England, Wales and Scotland; and the disadvantages to the tenant farmer of so much countryside - perhaps as much as 50 per cent of all agricultural land - being devoted to game conservation was causing disquiet in official circles.

A. Tinniswood, The long weekend (2016), 292

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