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In spite of Cobbett's admiration of downland farming in Wiltshire, he was also very concious of the polarization of society which it caused with a few wealthy estate and large farm owners depending for their prosperity on the labour of the landless labourers. He was horrified by the long hours which they worked, their poor housing and very low wages. Of the labourers' conditions in the valley of the Wiltshire Avon, he wrote;

deep shame . . . at beholding the general extreme poverty of those who cause this page to produce such quantities of food and raiment. This is, I verily believe it, the worst used labouring people upon the face of the earth.

He was not the only one to comment upon the poverty of the landless labourers and conditions were slow to improve as the reports of parliamentary commissioners from the mid-19th century show. Such a commissioner writing of conditions in Dorset in 1867;

the cottages of this county are more ruinous and contain worse accomodation than those of any other county I have wisited except Shropshire . . . [they] are a disgrace to the owners of the land.

Some landowners did make efforts to improve the housing of their labourers, for example the well-built cottages on the estates of Lord Portman around Blandford Forum and more than 600 cottages which were built around his estates around Wimborne St Giles by the Earl of Shaftesbury.

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