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Rural life in Wessex, 1500-1900

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Moonraker Press, 1977 - Agriculture - 151 pages

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Contents

Introduction The Background page
7
Improvements and developments in Agriculture 15001900
24
Rural Industries
40

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acres Affpuddle agricultural alehouses Bath Beaminster Blandford Forum breeds Bristol butter cattle Cerne Abbas chalk chalkland area cheese churchwardens clayland cloth common corn cottages cows Cranborne Crewkerne crops customs dairy Deborah Tucker decline Devizes downland early nineteenth century early seventeenth century eighteenth century enclosures estates example fairs farm labourers farmers fold forest Frome grazing Hampshire heathland Hinton St George horses houses important improved industry John Aubrey justices large number London manor manorial manorial court meadows Mendip milk neighbours number of sheep overseers parish church period Photograph places poor produce Puddletown Purbeck quarries railways records rent rural communities rural society Salisbury Shaftesbury sheep flocks shepherd Sherborne shillings sixteenth and seventeenth sixteenth century Skimmington Somerset levels south Somerset stone survive tenants throughout the region towns and villages traditional vale wages Warminster water-meadows Wessex west Dorset west of England west-country Wiltshire and Dorset Wimborne St Giles wrote Yeovil

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TitleRural life in Wessex, 1500-1900
AuthorJ. H. Bettey
PublisherMoonraker Press, 1977
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized11 Aug 2006
Length151 pages
  
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