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Category: Old Ways

This road is called Ox Drove and I have just rode away from the Woodbury Hill that in the medieval period was the biggest hiring fair and market in southern England.

Drovers were the Nomads of Rural Britain

December 7, 2023 Old Ways
By the 1820s, domestic production likely decreased to between 60,000 and 70,000 tons per year.

Oak Bark Was a Substantial Business From the 1600s

November 30, 2023 Old Ways
A path in Old Chalkpit Plantation, which adjoins the River Yare in the south, leads past a lime kiln that has been built into the hillside.

The History of Lime and Lime Kilns

November 23, 2023 Old Ways

The Ox Was so Crucial to Rural Life, But What is an Ox?

September 8, 2023 Old Ways

Which is the Best Rural History Museum

July 14, 2023 Old Ways
cheese rolling Gloucestershire

Strange English Rural Traditions

July 6, 2023 Old Ways
medieval clothe dying

Clothes we Made from Plants

June 27, 2023 Old Ways
Horn lantern, lanthorn

The Role of Horn in the Rural History

June 26, 2023 Old Ways
Disused water meadow sluice in Dorset

Water Meadows, What are They?

June 20, 2023 Old Ways
Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull (1674-1741) Changed Farming Forever

June 20, 2023 Old Ways

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