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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… were still kept in the 1840s and 1850s by gardeners' and labourers' daughters. The families living in the fen sent … one farmer asking what use learning geography was to his labourers, Clay had an 'enlarged and liberal' curriculum laid … All the teachers long remained Anglicans, but many labourers in 1878 thought the Church school's religious …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in 1841, but 27 by 1851, and 35 by the 1860s, while labourers' cottages, numbering c. 70 in 1841, 85-95 after … in the 1860s, among them 24 farmhouses, the rest mostly labourers' cottages. 56Those farmhouses were mostly strung … had been long disused by 1820, 18although unemployed labourers were still fiddling and Morris dancing on Plough …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… low wages out of the rates, besides providing work, for labourers who had suffered from the introduction of threshing …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1759, and by 1767 was giving sermons, before and after the labourers' working hours, in a barn nearby. By 1773 he sent …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… screws, hinges, gun-locks, gun-barrels, coach-ironmongery, agricultural implements, apparatus for gas-lights, &c, many …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… and 1.2500 plans. However those which were removed for agricultural purposes many years ago can still be traced, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… arable, and one-third grass. Limestone is wrought for agricultural purposes; and wool-combing to some extent is …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… lay within the forest jurisdiction of Mount Gilbert 47 and agricultural improvement was therefore to some extent … in amounts up to 18 a. 32 By the early 18th century most agricultural land was probably held by lease. On the … and meadow exceeded arable by 6 to 1. There were 530 a. of agricultural land 57 but no large farms. A few tenants were …