The Annual Report to Parliament on Smallholdings in England provides an analysis of each local authority's smallholdings by size and the details of this are set out in the following table. DEFRA does not hold information on whether farms are held as retirement or lifetime tenancies under the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986.
The latest published Annual Report is the 57th Report for the period 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007 and is available in the Library of the House and can also be seen on DEFRA's website.
Number of holdings County/Unitary Authority 0—20 ha 20—40 ha Over 40 ha Total Bedfordshire 83 30 25 138 Berkshire West — 2 1 3 Bournemouth 5 1 1 7 Brighton and Hove 24 4 23 51 Buckinghamshire 35 17 14 66 Cambridgeshire 137 67 140 344 Cheshire 58 51 28 137 City of York 2 — 2 4 Cornwall 10 51 51 112 Cumbria 6 8 — 14 Devon 6 32 53 91 Dorset 6 28 32 66 Durham 1 2 12 15 East Riding of Yorkshire 65 54 17 136 East Sussex — 1 1 2 Essex 8 3 — 11 Gloucestershire 56 49 31 136 Hampshire 40 8 18 66 Hartlepool — 1 1 2 Herefordshire 4 48 9 61 Hertfordshire 23 18 21 62 Lancashire 2 — — 2 Leicestershire 10 52 20 82 Lincolnshire 120 84 76 280 Medway 2 — 1 3 Milton Keynes 5 2 5 12 Norfolk 116 54 70 240 Northamptonshire 8 5 2 15 North Lincolnshire 17 1 — 18 North Somerset 5 1 5 11 Northumberland 1 — 6 7 North Yorkshire 16 44 18 78 Nottinghamshire 12 6 1 19 Oxfordshire 34 5 2 41 Peterborough 12 1 15 28 Shropshire 25 17 1 43 Slough 1 — — 1 Somerset 17 41 31 89 South Gloucestershire 8 6 4 18 Staffordshire 48 68 19 135 Suffolk 15 20 67 102 Surrey 41 13 6 60 Swindon 4 9 6 19 Thurrock 6 3 2 11 Torbay 2 — — 2 Warrington 3 2 — 5 Warwickshire 36 19 20 75 West Sussex 14 2 5 21 Wiltshire 22 27 22 71 Worcestershire 96 20 10 126 Total 1,267 977 894 3,138