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A History of the County of Oxford
… quarries, and roads: in 1820 169 was spent on road labourers, presumably in the form of wages, and income from …
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
… said to be 'gentlemen' and the rest tradesmen, farmers and labourers. 39 In the 1730s and 1740s chapel trustees included … a predominantly working-class area of mill workers, labourers, and small craftsmen, 139 is probably not … 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 … while only 52 men were classified as agricultural labourers. 96 By 1951 very little fishing and yachting …
A History of the County of Essex
… including a Frenchman, and another 18 were described as labourers. 29 In 1525 forty-two were assessed, apparently all … Much of the rest of the parish remained farm- land. A few labourers' cottages were built in the 19th century by H. J. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… themselves in the church between the farmers and the labourers. 46 Edwardes's successor, the first resident …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and 3 printers between 1815 and 1840, and several of the labourers in the parish were probably employed in the mill. … 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 …
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. … by the temporary presence in the parish of 74 railway labourers. In 1861 the population was 617 and in 1871 it was …