Employment in Willen

Contents

2000
Table of jobs of present inhabitants
1881
Data on jobs done by Victorian inhabitants
Farm Workers
Farming the Whiting way
Teaching
John Benthall - a country vicar
Willen Post Office
John Clare: milkman
Homecrafts: basketmaking
Homecrafts: lacemaking
Homecrafts: straw hat making
1520
Life in a monastery
Agriculture, - strip farming and harvest time
The watermill
their role in village life, mills in Willen
the building & how it works
the end of the mill
Dr Busby leases his mill to William Simms, miller