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was almost wholly agricultural, as it is still. Of other industries, 
there were few, either in the town itself or its vicinity, the 
chief of them being corn-milling. Up to the time when Varenne 
went there, the place had been mainly what was called then a 
"thoroughfare town”; that is to say, it existed largely on 
FIG. 2 . -HOUSE IN THE HIGH STREET AT KELVEDON, INHABITED FOR MANY 
YEARS BY E. G. VARENNE (181I-1887), BOTANIST. 
the road-traffic, consisting of the innumerable coaches and 
carriers’ waggons which passed through it along the great coach 
road, on their way to and from London. Romford, Brentwood, 
Ingatestone, Chelmsford, Colchester, Harwich, Ipswich, and 
elsewhere. But, soon after the time of Varenne’s settlement 
there, all such traffic was put an end to, in the “ Forties ” and 
