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A History of the County of Oxford
… for improved navigation, and in the 18th century some agricultural produce was transported down the river Thames by … over 40,000 tons of freight a year, including coal, agricultural produce, and, in the 1950s, nearly 100,000 bales … Corn Street, Woodgreen, and West End, and glovers and agricultural workers around Newland. Wealthier and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 34 From the later 17th century most of the demesne and the agricultural buildings were leased separately from the house, … Windrush; by the mid 13th century it was evidently walled. Agricultural buildings, mostly on the yard's west side, … cellars are probably also those of the earlier house. Some agricultural buildings remained in 1698 when a 'great barn' …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was then falling slightly through the effects of agricultural depression and unemployment; nevertheless the …
A History of the County of Essex
… In 1339 the unfree tenants on Wivenhoe manor owed regular agricultural services, which varied on different holdings, … in improving farming methods, and was president of Essex Agricultural Society in 1870. At his Wivenhoe Lodge farm of … land to improve it. 57 Arable farming declined in the agricultural depression of the late 19th century, and by 1902 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for the 74 railway labourers in the otherwise largely agricultural parish in 1851 (the mill was not working that … agriculture was still the largest employer; there were 62 agricultural workers compared with 46 people at the paper … Farmers on both estates got into difficulties during the agricultural depression of the earlier 19th century, their …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Port Meadow, which suggests an extension of the scattered agricultural settlement of that date found in North Oxford. …