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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… is uneventful, but of some interest as that of a compact agricultural estate of 20,000 acres carefully administered. … a profit. Its average income was then nearly £10,000. The agricultural depression of the last quarter of the century … annual loss over £2,000 (Herbrand Duke of Bedford, A Great Agricultural Estate, 95-96). In 1943-4 a 1 d. rate produced …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… annual value in the last three streets was £28 10 s.; labourers' cottages in Horse Fair and the adjoining streets …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… dykes or digging new ones cost 2 d. or 3 d. a perch, the labourers' wages being 4 d. a day. A 'drainage tax' of ¼ d. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… pasture land outside the two parks; 41 in addition to the agricultural services of tenants, it was worked by regular … later became Thakeham union. 48 In 1834 the four or five labourers unemployed in winter were supported by parish work, … only, and 16 boys and girls on Sundays only. 32 In 1871 labourers' children paid no fees. 33 During the late 19th …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… 79 Newton Harcourt has always been essentially an agricultural village, though the names of 14th-century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… about 1823, and in 1907, following difficulties during the agricultural depression, the trustees sold the farm, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the three rural townships, remained predominantly agricultural, with profits from rents and farming forming the … manor house near Witney church, with its extensive agricultural buildings; 2 from the 1390s the land was usually … along with large numbers of agricultural and general labourers. Agricultural trades such as malting remained …