6 The Early Years of British Agriculture 



times, of stone, and stood not far from the village 

 where were the houses of the lord's tenants. Each 

 house stood in a yard and was loosely built of wood, 

 clay, mud, turf, or wattles. 







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Afpage of Domesday Book, 



giving a list of some of the lands in Cambridgeshire belonging 

 to Picot the Sheriff, A.D. 1081-86 



The villagers spent the greater part of their work-day 

 on the open fields of arable land, though it was part of 

 their duty to give so much time to ploughing and cul- 

 tivating the lord's own land. The arable land of each 



