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A History of the County of Essex
… whilst the number of farmers fell from 13 to 5 and of agricultural labourers from 113 to 104. 89 A threshing … parish in the 19th century. 96 Membership of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union was strong from 1874 until 1889 … but from 1894 union activity declined. 97 The reduction of agricultural wages in 1919 led to protests, but the farmers' …
A History of the County of Essex
… out of the 30 parishes in Lexden hundred, and 535 in 1851. Agricultural depression from the late 19th cent- ury caused … Hall manor house provided a focus of settlement for the agricultural parish. The other manor houses were Garnons in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… homes. In the Middle Ages and later Worthing was a small agricultural and fishing hamlet of less importance than the … afforded higher rewards to local farm-workers than agricultural overtime. 70 In the 1920s and 1930s Worthing …
A History of the County of Sussex
… which, with erosion to the east, reduced the amount of agricultural land. 21 About 1848 there were 140 a. of pasture … and early-20th-century boundary changes brought more agricultural land into the borough. Ham farm, in Durrington … placed on them. 75 In 1931 most of Worthing's 1,513 male agricultural workers were employed in market-gardening. 76 …