Social Change on the Leveson-Gower Estates, 1714-1832 (Book).

The article presents a study that investigates the social change on the Leveson-Gower estates in England during the period 1714-1832. It discusses the economic and social conditions of small farmers and agricultural laborers during the period. The sizes of tenant farms and the methodology used in the study are presented. It provides an explanation on the source of the data used for the study. The article also discusses the fate of the English "yeoman" in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and of the small owner-occupier, who has been generally equated with the English yeoman.