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A History of the County of Sussex
… 36 a. of rotation grass and 839 a. of permanent grass. 4 Watercress was grown in beds east of Swanbourne lake between …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of Barrett's Grove and was built over after c. 1870. 38 Watercress beds near Barrett's Grove in the 1850s 39 were possibly still productive in 1871, when a watercress seller lived in Cock and Castle Lane. 40 Eden … Park cemetery from c. 1848 to c. 1859. 52 A nursery with watercress beds next to it, in Green Lanes north of Clissold …
A History of the County of Essex
… Street, Sams Green, Aldborough Hatch, and Barkingside. 41 Watercress was grown along the Roding at Uphall. 42 The fruit …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… chalk. The chief crops are wheat, oats, turnips, and watercress. 25 Among place-names can be mentioned Bouerewey, …
Old and New London
… merchants, or as nursery grounds, market gardens, and even watercress-beds. The population of Hackney, too, which at the … recent date for its market gardens, and even for its watercress beds. A large watercress garden was in existence until 1860, and perhaps …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… are several popultry farms, and in the Lyde there are watercress beds. The paper-mills of Mr. A. H. James provide …
A History of the County of Essex
… acclaimed by his guests as good as any foreign wine. 89 Watercress beds were cultivated at Low Hall and in Higham … B. Wheatley), vii. 256. V.H.M., Local Bd. Mins. (lease of watercress beds, 1885, 1892); Hatley, Across the years, 26. …
A History of the County of Essex
… in 1905, 49 and in the same year the closure of some watercress beds near Temple Mills, suspected of spreading …
A History of the County of Hertford
… of india-rubber and waterproof goods at Harpenden. Watercress is grown in the parish to some extent for the …