The AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW
a journal of agricultural and rural history
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Agricultural History Review, Volume 54 Part 1 (2006), pp. 93–104
Agricultural workers in mid nineteenth-century Brighton
Like many other English towns, Brighton had a number of residents who described themselves as agricultural workers in the 1861 census. This article examines where they were born, when they moved to Brighton, their housing and occupational histories. Most seem likely to have been casual workers on South Downs farms within walking distance of the town.