Agricultural History Review, Volume 50 Part 2 (2002), pp. 1–24

The recently published work by Turner, Beckett and Afton has highlighted the fact that historians interested in evaluating land productivity in early-modern England have far more than just probate inventories at their disposal. This paper utilizes complementary sources in order to counteract the obvious flaws and limitations of the inventory. From this the paper has been able to glean new livestock and grain yield data for Woodland High Suffolk and these are placed in the context of agrarian change in the district. Its conclusions as to if, when and how the district 'revolutionized' its means of producing food for the nation, lend support to the recent findings of historians such as Turner, Overton and Williamson. 

Complete Volume PDF