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have also been placed on land bordering the New- 

 market road, and in close proximity to the village. 



CHARACTER OF TENANTS. 



Four-fifths of the number of tenants are actually 

 Burwell men ; the others are from the adjoining 

 villages or the immediate district. Amongst them, 

 exclusive of mere allotment holders, are 3 farm 

 foremen, 2 innkeepers, 8 butchers, 1 baker, 1 

 saddler, 1 bricklayer, 1 warehouseman, 1 mail-cart 

 driver, 1 miller's labourer, 2 mechanics, 3 farmer's 

 sons, and 10 agricultural labourers. The remainder 

 are cottagers and cow-keepers already holding a 

 little land, carriers, and turf-diggers. Turf-digging 

 employs quite a number of men in the district. 

 They either buy the land for this purpose outright, 

 or they hire it for a term of years and extract all 

 the turf they can, or they are merely employed to 

 dig by turf merchants. This land, if dug down to 

 the drainage level, subsequently grows sedges, which 

 are used for litter or are chopped up for fodder and 

 sent to London. Besides this occupation, the dis- 

 trict offers various other forms of job work, to 

 which the small holding is a valuable adjunct. 

 There are large manure works close to the village, 

 where extra hands are taken on from February to 

 April ; there are also cement and brick works. A 

 few men also make a good thing out of driving to 

 Newmarket races. In the twenty-eight days during 

 which they are employed at the different times 

 they can earn up to about 50. 



