The World From Below

Place

United Kingdom · Norfolk, England

Marsham

A small Norfolk parish east of Norwich where mid-19th-century farm-labour wages, cottage crowding, and children’s field work set the terms of rural life.

Illustrative photograph of a wheat field (Pexels). Editorial place card for Marsham, Norfolk — not George Edwards and not his crow fields.

Illustrative — wheat field (Pexels). Used to identify Marsham / Norfolk farm country, not a Field Note subject’s workplace. · Credit: Pexels · Source: Pexels

Stories

The Shilling He Brought Home at Six

In Marsham, Norfolk, in the spring of 1856, a six-year-old farm boy earned a shilling for seven days scaring crows — and learned the next week what sleep in a cornfield cost.