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62 J. H. Turner, ‘On the necessity of reducing the size and number of hedges’,
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63 Rev St John Priest, General View of the Agriculture of the County of
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64 J. Boys, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Kent (London,
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65 H. Holland, General View of the Agriculture of Cheshire (London, 1813),
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66 A. Young, General View of the Agriculture of Hertfordshire (London, 1804),
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67 R. E. Green, P. E. Osbourne and E. J. Steers, ‘The distribution of passerine
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68 C. C. Babbington, Flora of Cambridgeshire (Cambridge, 1860), p. xv.

69 J. Caird, English Agriculture 1851-2 (London, 1852), p. 310.

70 B. Jennings, ‘A longer view of the Wolds’, in J. Thirsk (ed.), Rural England:
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71 W. Cobbett, Rural Rides (London, 1853), p. 585.

72 Essex Record Office D/P 126/3/2.

73 S. Lambert (ed.), House of Commons Sessional Papers of the Eighteenth
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74 Ibid., p. 749.

75 Ibid., p. 776.

76 T. Ruggles, ‘Picturesque farming’, Annals of Agriculture 6 (1786), 175–84.
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77 A. F. J. Brown, Prosperity and Poverty: rural Essex, 1700-1815 (Chelmsford:
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78 Shrubb, Birds, Scythes and Combines, pp. 51–9.

79 C. Stoate, ‘The changing face of lowland farming and wildlife part 1: 1845–1945’,
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80 Shrubb, Birds, Scythes and Combines, pp. 167–9.

81 E. L. Jones, ‘The bird pests of British agriculture in recent centuries’,
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82 Shrubb, Birds, Scythes and Combines, p. 51.

83 Ibid., pp. 51–2.

84 Ibid., p. 52.