Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Geological map of the High and Low Wealds with approximate farm locations. -- 2 Diagram of potential rail access to hop markets from Biddenden Farm. -- 3 Plan of the Borough High Street and neighbourhood -- List of Tables -- 1 Wealden parish and English hop acreages at intervals between 1866 and 1988 -- 2 Average prices of Kentish hop bags and hop pockets in relation to English hop yields 1787-97 -- 3 The numbers of hop factors and hop merchants in the Borough at selected dates -- List of Appendices -- General Editor's preface -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: '… into the hops' -- Chapter 1: Land and location -- The Weald -- Changes in hop acreage -- Woodland and the hop -- The hop and employment -- Southwark -- Chapter 2: Fringe farms: the early days of hop cultivation -- A farm at Ivychurch: 1789-1812 -- Ruffins Hill Farm, Burmarsh, Kent, 1696-1720 and Forestall Farm, Burmarsh, Kent, 1764-75 -- Forestall Farm -- Tatlingbury Farm, near Tudeley, Kent, 1744-58 -- Biddenden Farm 1849-60 -- Organisation of the work -- The plough team -- Hop work -- Hops in the economy of Biddenden Farm -- Chapter 3: Continuity and change: Combourne and Harper's Farms 1897-9 -- Issues of the time -- Ernest Wickham and hop cultivation -- Manure -- Washes and sprays -- Hop poles, wirework and creosote -- The harvest -- Endings -- Chapter 4: The twentieth century: futures -- Varieties -- Dwarf hops -- Chapter 5: Hop factors and hop merchants: buying and selling hops in the Borough -- Middlemen -- Direct selling and the Waddington case -- Hop factors -- Hop merchants -- People and places -- Chapter 6: The last hurrah? Tithe commutation and the repeal of hop duty -- John Nash and the repeal of hop duty -- Conclusion: gathering up and moving on -- Appendices -- Select bibliography.

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