how much do you pay for your allotment

[greenthing]

Hi all
I'm trying to find the average price you pay for your council
allotment plot and size if known in square meters
thanks
greenthing

[Unwashed]

This is still current.

Averate rate for a 5-pole plot is somewhere between £3.88/pole and £5.39/pole and is most likely £4.64/pole, and if you get a ten pole plot the rate's about 20p/pole cheaper.

[lincsyokel2]

17 pole plot  £42 (£2.47/pole), but OAP concession £21 (£1.23/pole)

A pole is 30.25 square yards, and the standard allotment size is 17 poles. This plot size was arrived at centuries ago as it is considered enough land to grow enough veg for a family of four.

Todays useless fact:
An oxgang was viking measure used in the Doomsday Book, and was the area of land that an ox could plough in one season. Since oxen were usually used in teams of eight, the area that eight ox could plough was called a bovate, or carucate.

So an oxgang was about 15 acres, and a bovate was 100-120. Just to make it more awkward, parts if England not under Danelaw used the virgate, which was twice the size of an oxgang (because you used two ox instead of one), and a carucate was then known as a Hide.

[1066]

Now that is definitely Todays useless fact - I'm loving it 

[Squash64]

Now that is definitely Todays useless fact - I'm loving it 

Wonder if I could slip a few mentions of oxgangs, bovates, carucates and virgates into conversation with my friend while we walk the dogs in the park this morning? 

  

[saddad]

Most research implies that these terms covered yeilds (?sp) for taxation purposes not modern measures of area... the "acre" was not a statute term and varied by @100% depending on the soil... smaller on heavy, rich soils, larger on light, poor soils...   

[Capt Pugwash]

Mines 25m x 10m and I pay the 'princely' sum of £20 

[lottiedolly]

We pay £6 per year for our small plot. it is the best bargain 

[nilly71]

I think mine was £25 for 1/2 a plot inc water, I've just extended it to 3/4 and rent is going up by 20% this year. I bet there is going to be a lot of upset people on our allotment.


Neil

[Le-y]

Mines 365sq meters and we pay £25 per year

[Robert_Brenchley]

Mine's a nominal 600 square yards (roughly 20 poles), and this year I paid £40 including Association membership for myself and wife. So that's a total £2/pole.

[lincsyokel2]

Mines 25m x 10m and I pay the 'princely' sum of £20 

thats 8.19 poles at £2.44 a pole

[lincsyokel2]

Mines 365sq meters and we pay £25 per year

thats 12 poles at  £2.08 a pole

[Le-y]

Mines 365sq meters and we pay £25 per year

thats 12 poles at  £2.08 a pole

thank you, i'm rubbish at maths and did wonder!

[cornykev]

£40.50 and that includes the water for 6 poles.     

[Psi (Pronounced 'Si'!)]

£4.50/pole. I have 10 poles.

[chriscross1966]

I currently pay 15 a year for about 10 poles on a faily basi site (we've got water troughs scattered through and legend tells of a site strimmer adn rotavator but I've never seen them) in Oxford...

Where I'm moving to in Swindon (and have my name down even before I've moved) 5 poles will cost me 19 a year .... on a similar site as far as I can tell.

As I work in oxford I'll be keeping the Oxford plot for at least another year (Our site doesn't have a waiting list, but the spare plots need as much breaking in as mine did ...

chrisc

[grannyjanny]

We pay £11.75 inc insurance & water. It's a half plot 18' x 56'. We get it half price as we are OAPs. Don't know haw many poles we have .

[james1]

I pay £20.00 a year they tried to put it up this year to £40.00
but apparently they have to give twelve months notice before it can go up.
So next year it will be £40.00............

[flitwickone]

i have 15 poles and its £5 the lot
just sent my cheque off last week