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A History of the County of Essex
… character of the place, since inhabitants of purely agricultural villages of similar area in Essex numbered only …
A History of the County of Sussex
… between five and sixteen times as many parishioners in agricultural as in non-agricultural occupations. 63 There was a corn and cattle …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Liberals and Methodists were prominent in the local agricultural trade union movement, 16 and in the 1890s a … Market Place, was particularly prominent. 74 The Woodstock Agricultural and Horticultural Association, formed in 1858 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 9 the millers were to be paid 5 a year for working the machinery and collecting the rents. 10 The cistern, if …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and tradesmen of the Liberals' association with the agricultural labourers' union and Joseph Arch. 32 Lord …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and he later became mayor; he and Godden promoted the agricultural labourers' union. 80 The Banburys were …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Mill in the later 19th century, the mill contained similar machinery in 1921, 85 and was worked up to 1950 when it was … a reservoir to improve the water supply. 96 Larger machinery was fitted at about the same time and in 1885 and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… at high rents. He had tried to cut mowing costs by buying machinery but with only 3 a. of arable had to buy grain for … Courts were held up to three times a year mainly for agricultural and tenancy matters. 25 In 1648 the tenants of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the manufacture of steam-engine boilers, and the requisite machinery for the steam-vessels now built here, some of which … of circular and other saws for converting timber, and machinery of ingenious construction for planing wood, and for … at pleasure; there are also circular and other saws, with machinery of a very ingenious description, for turning and …