cottage-farmsteads

Updated: July 5, 2025

They were avaricious and penurious to the last degree, and grudged every halfpenny to the labouring man. They were, and the remnant of them still are, the determined opponent of all progress. The interior of some of these cottage-farmsteads, which still exist, is almost Dutch-like in simplicity and homeliness.

Richard Jefferies - The Toilers of the Field