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Rural District Parish Acreage Population 1901 268 Number of acres per person Watford 31,238 14,315 2.2 Abbot’s Langley 5,281 3,342 1.6 Aldenham 6,114 2,487 2.5 Chorleywood 1,989 1,180 1.7 Rickmansworth Rural 7,460 1,425 5.2 Sarratt 1,540 630 2.4 Watford Rural 8,854 5,251 1.7 Welwyn 6,480 2,234 2.9 Ayot St. Lawrence 751 99 7.6 Ayot St. Peter 1,093 221 4.9 Digswell 1,674 285 5.9 Welwyn 2,962 1,629 1.8 Source: BPP CX1.1 [Cd.6258] (1912-13) Census of England and Wales 1911 Volume I Table 7 ‘Population in Urban and Rural Portions of Administrative Counties’ & Table 10 ‘Administrative Counties, Urban Districts & Rural Districts with their constituent Civil Parishes’.
Appendix 2B Population change in Hertfordshire 1851-1901 Acreage 1851 1901 % growth/decline Registration County 446,420 173,963 239,760 38% 260 Registration District Civil Parish Acreage 1851 1901 % growth/ decline BARNET 14,006 5,697 16,183 184% Chipping Barnet 1,489 2,380 5,190 118% East Barnet 1,697 663 6,839 932% Elstree 1,510 396 1,323 234% Ridge 3,615 366 478 31% Shenley 4,091 1,297 1,509 16% Totteridge 1,604 595 844 42% BERKHAMSTED 21,518 11,503 15,013 49% Aldbury 2,058 820 812 31% Great Berkhamsted 4,363 3,395 5,600 Little Gaddesden 925 374 326 -1% Northchurch 3,908 1,383 2,455 65% Puttenham 744 142 97 -13% Tring 7,846 4,746 5,054 78% Wigginton 1,674 643 669 -32% BISHOP’S STORTFORD 31,517 13,433 14,610 9% Albury 3,248 668 505 -24% Bishop’s Stortford 3,285 5,280 7,143 35% Braughing 4,368 1,246 930 -25% Brent Pelham 1,637 298 207 -31% Furneux Pelham 2,585 688 449 -35% Little Hadham 3,082 878 655 -25% Much Hadham 4,490 1,264 1,199 -5% Sawbridgeworth 6,639 2,571 2,846 11% Stocking Pelham 647 138 138 0% Thorley 1,536 402 538 34% EDMONTON 8,479 5,579 12,292 120% Cheshunt 8,479 5,579 12,292 120% HATFIELD 30,067 8,499 9,816 15% Ayot St. Lawrence 751 147 99 -33% Ayot St. Peter 1,093 282 221 -22% Digswell 1,656 239 242 1% Essendon 2,331 739 565 -24% Hatfield 12,884 3,862 4,754 23% Northaw 3,305 545 664 22% North Mymms 4,966 1,128 1,568 39% Welwyn 3,081 1,557 1,703 9%
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Julie Patricia Moore THE IMPACT OF
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work has been
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List of Tables 2.1 Population chang
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List of Appendices 2A Population of
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List of Abbreviations Newspapers an
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Since 1875 every kind of farm produ
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estate comprising more than thirty
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expanding population with food, and
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factor of the money coming in, rath
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London markets. 34 However, while c
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The arrival of the Scots was under
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The period 1880-1914 saw no shortag
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As the agricultural depression deep
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his obligations at Michaelmas that
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Relief Act, introduced in 1896, inc
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the anonymous urban consumer with h
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Flora Thompson remembered how altho
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Work on the land, in constant conta
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of the rural in the wider nation. A
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live upon the whole without land. H
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environment. This understanding exp
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majority of those who fought in the
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energy and engagement with their co
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that at a meeting held in May 1883,
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eflected that wider argument of urb
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Table 2.1. Population Change in Her
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The railway companies were alert to
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the small farms had quite disappear
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and their families were choosing to
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The most important of these opportu
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Leavesden Metropolitan Asylum for P
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Those who worked the farms of Hertf
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ecorded. However, Table 2.4 does sh
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work, reducing both the yield and q
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places in hedges, is often imperiou
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The Landowners of Hertfordshire Tab
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1795, drew attention to the large n
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epresentation amongst the ranks of
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M.P., for a price of £46,500. 117
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een able to maintain the estate by
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included the turnover of those who
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his tenants through the worst of th
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orientation and potentially ripe fo
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The subject of the weather was a pe
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from the 1879 figure. 15 As an arab
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Table 3.2 Percentage change in aver
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Committee of the Bishop’s Stortfo
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I have not much knowledge of farmin
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dislocation between those who saw f
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As Table 3.3 shows, whilst the wide
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experience of bankruptcy varied acr
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those cases where the death of the
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In 1886 Benjamin Godfrey, concerned
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Table 3.8 Farmers occupying 1,000 a
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millers and farmers. 101 He was unu
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county from these different extreme
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Table 3.10 Combined Presence of Sco
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eported that the average rent on an
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However, both Spencer and Rider Hag
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Bruisers should remember they must
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were absent at the time of the inci
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achieved amongst Hertfordshire farm
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In 1902, Rider Haggard concluded th
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a general hostility should be avoid
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found that their claim to special s
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agricultural labourers, but that it
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culture which they represented and
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injustice on the poor farmers: they
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as, ‘winter or summer he was neve
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hour,’ 247 but whilst the agricul
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landowners could provide cottages o
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them fell victim to bankruptcy cour
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the hospital and the museum, as wel
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household word by generous deeds sc
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These ‘humble folk’ had a uniqu
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estates in Hertfordshire reflected
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ut does not exhaust realities’ 38
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villagers who had difficulties in a
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getting such projects off the groun
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invited Fillingham to visit his own
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Spencer and a local orchid nurserym
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As Table 4.2 shows, it was those su
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parish church. 104 Shepherd Cross d
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In recognition of his many kindly a
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celebrations in the village. 128 Sh
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one who came to Hertfordshire from
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mean,’ and was less likely to sel
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enthusiasm for a ‘Tudorbethan’
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No mention was made of the difficul
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for the cheap colony would spring u
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space available for more than just
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Table 4.3 Golf Clubs Established by
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nursemaids and perambulators, the h
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from the gates of the park to the h
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Chapter 5. The Political Climate of
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public imagination. As the Agricult
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served as Conservative members for
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The Four Divisions Table 5.2. Regis
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prominent in the northern parishes,
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attle grounds of the election in th
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try and get good measures out of th
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Panshanger, whose 10,000 acre estat
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ecognising ‘how vitally important
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Elector, and the Hertfordshire Merc
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Faudel-Phillips was an excellent sp
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situation of this metropolitan coun
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disposition would suffice. 109 In f
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However, Bingham-Cox, who maintaine
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The final poll saw Bingham-Cox come
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Whilst living within the division w
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understood the political world arou
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offering a model for the county whi
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Hitchin, Fordham spoke of how ‘th
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Conservative meeting that he had fo
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solutions. That the Conservatives w
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wanting to tidy his sitting-room wh
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Those ‘scented-handkerchiefs’ p
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toast was made to agriculture, ‘a
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the Liberals who offered some small
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Hunter, Junior, of Holwell Farm, Es
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In a real sense, debates about agra
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Chapter 6. Conclusion This thesis h
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elsewhere in the country. 3 In her
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still, with a few additions, be tak
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When the new wealthy re-modelled th
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The View from the Villa Whilst the
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farmers to offer reliable work at r
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workers. 24 Guides to the county co
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Appendix 4B. Individual Public Spen
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Status Village Halls Total 1870s 18
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Appendix 4A Individual public spend
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Name Occupation Place Date Amenity
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Name Occupation Place Date Amenity
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Page 272 and 273: Appendix 3M Devon farmers resident
Page 274 and 275: Appendix 3L Cornish farmers residen
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Page 282 and 283: Appendix 3I Millers, corn merchants
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Page 286 and 287: Name Farm Situation Dual Occupation
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Page 290 and 291: Source: BPP LXIX.271 [C.460] (1871)
Page 292 and 293: 292 Source: BPP LXIX.271 [C.460] (1
Page 294 and 295: Appendix 3D Grain and Flour Importe
Page 296 and 297: Returns of Great Britain, Tables On
Page 298 and 299: Appendix 3A Quantities returned and
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Page 302 and 303: Appendix 2H High Sheriffs of Hertfo
Page 304 and 305: Year of office Appendix 2G Patterns
Page 306 and 307: Registration District Civil Parish
Page 310 and 311: Appendix 2E Businessmen buying esta
Page 312 and 313: Owner Residence County Hertfordshir
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Page 316 and 317: Rural District Parish Acreage Popul
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Page 328 and 329: PRIMARY SOURCES Archival Sources Ha
Page 330 and 331: BPP L.19 [401] (1882) Return of Chu
Page 332 and 333: Newspapers and Journals Baily’s F
Page 334 and 335: Forster, E.M., Howard’s End (Harm
Page 336 and 337: Blythe, R., Akenfield. Portrait of
Page 338 and 339: Fisher, R., ‘The Road Through Kin
Page 340 and 341: Hughes, M. V., A London Home in the
Page 342 and 343: Payne, C., Toil and Plenty. Images
Page 344 and 345: Spring, E. ‘Businessmen and Lando
Page 346 and 347: Unpublished PhD Theses Carpenter, A
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