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Survey of London
… in the courts probably housed poorer tradespeople and labourers, and they were soon subdivided. Already in 1864 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… has remained little more than a farm and a string of labourers' cottages. In each of the Domesday manors there was … males over 20, 2 were occupiers employing labour, 23 were labourers employed in agriculture, and 2 were engaged in … a local directory in 1916, 164 however, 6 were carters, 4 labourers, 3 shepherds, and 2 dairymen. The only substantial …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The commerce consists chiefly in the exportation of the agricultural and manufacturing produce. Of the former there …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to tenants and served the needs of a community at once agricultural and pastoral. In 1331, for example, Robert of … farmers occupying their own land and they both employed labourers. There were no owner-occupiers who farmed their … land by themselves. In contrast, there were 113 adult male agricultural labourers. 66 MILLS The existence of a mill in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… N.E. (b)ix. S.W. (c)ix. S.E. (d)xiv. N.E.) Wimbish is an agricultural parish which adjoins Saffron Walden on the S., …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 98 The Wincanton and Yeovil, later the East Somerset, Agricultural Society was in existence by 1843 and during the … In 1851 there were 6 farms over 200 a. In the same year 98 labourers were employed on 25 farms, but the number of labourers dropped consistently in every decade to 53 on 20 …