The Farmers of Old England

acre agricultural arable barley became better Blackheath Blackheath Country Breckland breed British Museum capital farms cattle Chalk Country Cheshire Cheese Country Chiltern Country clover cole-seed common fields corn corn-growing Cotswold Cotswold Country cows crops cultivation dairy demesne division of labour drained East Anglian enclosed England fallow family farmers fattened feed Fen Country field-courses Floated meadows flocks folding furrow slices gave graziers grazing High Suffolk hills horses improved industry innovations invention Lancashire Plain land landowners livestock living lord manor manure marl marshes marshlands Midland Plain Norfolk Heathlands Northdown Country Northwold Northwold Country oats permanent tillage Plate plough Poor Soils Country produce profits rent ridge and furrow ridge-and-furrow Romney Marsh sainfoin Sandlings Country seeds servants service-tenancies shire horses South Seacoast Taunton Deane tenants turnips up-and-down husbandry Upton St Leonards Vale of Evesham Vale of Pickering Vales of Hereford Wealden Vales wheat winter Woodland wool