defined and established local demand of men who 

 really knew what they were about, and were in a 

 position to take immediate advantage of the oppor- 

 tunities offered them. 



At Rew the land was merely sold outright to 

 anyone who seemed able to buy ; the purchasers, 

 although mostly from the county of Dorset, were 

 not so much a type of regular agriculturists drawn 

 from the adjoining village as was the case at 

 Winterslow, but were more of a heterogeneous 

 collection with differing aims. Many of them 

 found it a hard struggle to be at the same moment 

 purchasing their holding, putting up their houses, 

 and getting their land into cultivation at the same 

 time that they were getting a living. Winterslow 

 is a thriving village community with substantial 

 houses, and the visitor is impressed with a general 

 air of prosperity. Rew is a collection of struggling 

 freeholders, with a tendency for the less prosperous 

 to be bought out by their more successful neigh- 

 bours ; while some are doing fairly well and have put 

 up good houses, the holdings of less capable men give 

 one a feeling of a gipsy encampment. The scheme 

 at Twyford, again, although on a very much smaller 

 scale, serves to illustrate the point that only very 

 little success can be expected in the first instance, 

 when the experiment does not emanate naturally, 

 as it were, from the desire of the people themselves 

 who are to benefit by it, but is offered to them 

 through an outsider's semi-philanthropic interest. 



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