TABLE showing the Rate of AGRICULTURAL WAGES in 1850-51

NORTHERN COUNTIES

Weekly Wages

Midland and Western
Counties

East and South Coast
Counties

Weekly Wages

Cumberland
Lancashire
West Riding
Cheshire
Derby
Nottingham
Stafford

Northumberland
Durham
North Riding
East Riding
Lincoln

      s.     d.
    13   0
   13   6
   14   0
   12   0
   11   0
   10   0
     9   6

      s.     d.
    11   0
   11   0
   11   0
   12   0
   10   0
 

SOUTHERN COUNTIES

Warwick
Northampton
Bucks
Oxford
Gloucester
North Wilts
Devon

      s.     d.
      8   6
     9   0
     8   6
     9   0
     7   0
     7   6
     8   6

Norfolk
Suffolk
Huntingdon
Cambridge
Bedford
Hertford
Essex
Berks
Surrey
Sussex
Hants
South Wilts
Dorset

      s.     d.
      8   6
     7   0
     8   6
     7   6
     9   0
     9   0
     8   0
     7   6
     9   6
   10   6
     9   0
     7   0
     7   6

Average of West                        10   0             Average of East                          9   1

                                                                                                                                          
           Average of all NORTHERN COUNTIES                                        11   6
           Average of all SOUTHERN COUNTIES                                          8   5
           Average over the whole                                                                      9   6

Table extracted from Caird's English Agriculture in 1850-51 by James Caird, Esq., The Times Commisioner. Second Edition. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1852. Letter LV. The Labourer  p. 512