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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… (O.S. 6 in. (a)ix. S.W. (b)xiv. N.W.) Widdington is an agricultural parish and small village on a by-road about 5 m. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… at present employed is between two and three hundred; the machinery is set in motion by two steam-engines, each of …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… the several impropriators. 96 ECONOMIC HISTORY. Medieval agricultural arrangements are obscure. The extension of the … the east of the parish. 24 There is little evidence of non-agricultural employment in the parish, but at Wilberfoss a … 26 and a brewer in 1823, 27 and at Newton there was an agricultural implement maker in the late 19th century. 28 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… evidence of iron smelting and wool working, and of a mixed agricultural economy based on arable farming and the keeping …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the peak for horse farming had been passed, there were 118 agricultural horses, 76 unbroken horses, and 8 breeding … at Lower Place, which was closed in 1901 when the Royal Agricultural Society took over the land. At the time there …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… end of the Napoleonic wars, the series of bad summers, and agricultural depression, 82 the overseers were ordered in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Corporation of the City of London to purchase the former agricultural show site as a park 13 for the densely populated …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the brewer had gone. Most of the cottages were occupied by agricultural labourers and laundresses and there were some … the Villa. 60 Pound Lane contained a few cottages housing agricultural labourers and laundresses. 61 Freehold building … dairymen but they may have been retailers rather than agricultural workers. High Road had become a shopping centre …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 37 oats 21 36 15 0 mixed corn & rye 0 0 0 0 Percentage of agricultural land growing roots and vegetables 12 2 4 3 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1831 a third of the adult male population of over 300 were agricultural labourers and a third were employed in retail or … land, half employed no labour. 17 There were c. 200 male agricultural workers, including boys, in the period 1851-81. … Works. 62A firm still repaired and maintained agricultural machinery there in 1962 63but the works were later occupied …