The land comprises three reasonable shaped arable fields with road frontage onto either Manby Middlegate or Ings Lane. The land is classified as being Grade 3 on Sheet 105 of the
Provisional Agricultural Land Classification Maps of England and Wales as historically published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The Soil Survey of England and Wales identifies the soils a being from the “Wallasea 2” Association with their characteristics described as “deep stoneless clayey soils, calcareous in places. Some deep calcareous silty soils. Flat land often with low ridges giving a complex soil patter. Groundwater controlled by ditches and pumps” and as suitable for “winter cereals and some sugar beet, potatoes, cereals and field vegetables.”
