Rudling, M. (2017). A comparison of poor relief in a Wealden parish and a South Downs parish in eastern Sussex c.1830-1860. Sussex Archaeological Collections 155. Vol 155, pp. 181-196. https://doi.org/10.5284/1086820. Cite this via datacite

Title
Title
The title of the publication or report
Title:		 A comparison of poor relief in a Wealden parish and a South Downs parish in eastern Sussex c.1830-1860
Issue
Issue
The name of the volume or issue
Issue:		 Sussex Archaeological Collections 155
Series
Series
The series the publication or report is included in
Series:		 Sussex Archaeological Collections
Volume
Volume
Volume number and part
Volume:		 155
Page Start/End
Page Start/End
The start and end page numbers.
Page Start/End:		 181 - 196
Downloads
Downloads
Any files associated with the publication or report that can be downloaded from the ADS
Downloads:
SAC-155-Rudling.pdf (2 MB) : Download
Licence Type
Licence Type
ADS, CC-BY 4.0 or CC-BY 4.0 NC.
Licence Type:
ADS Terms of Use and Access icon
ADS Terms of Use and Access
DOI
DOI
The DOI (digital object identifier) for the publication or report.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5284/1086820
Publication Type
Publication Type
The type of publication - report, monograph, journal article or chapter from a book
Publication Type:		 Journal
Abstract
Abstract
The abstract describing the content of the publication or report
Abstract:		 Regional studies of poor relief in the 19th century have identified contrasting welfare experiences. This study identifies variations in relief between two rural parishes in Sussex at the end of the Old Poor Law and during the first decades of the New Poor Law. Relief records from Chiddingly in the Weald and Rottingdean on the South Downs reveal that there were much higher levels of relief in the Wealden parish both before and after the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Variations in farming conditions and land ownership between these two areas led to a different profile of relief recipients. Small scale farming and surplus labour in the Wealden parish resulted in a high demand for out-relief from male labourers. Relief officials were used to supporting this group of men under the Old Poor Law and were reluctant to change their practices under the New. In contrast more prosperous farmers were able to provide full-time employment for labourers on the South Downs where relief payments were traditionally reserved for the elderly and for widows with young children. Poor relief payments rarely reached subsistence levels, and access to alternative resources was important, including the employment of wives and children, benefit clubs, charities and allotments. There appears to have been a wider range of resources available in the downland parish which may also explain why fewer people were dependent on relief.
Author
Author
The authors of this publication or report
Author:		 Mary Rudling
Year of Publication
Year of Publication
The year the book, article or report was published
Year of Publication:		 2017
Locations
Locations
Any locations covered by the publication or report. This is not the place the book or report was published.
Locations:
Location - Auto Detected: Wealden
Location - Auto Detected: Sussex
Location - Auto Detected: Chiddingly
Location - Auto Detected: Weald
Location - Auto Detected: Rottingdean
Locations
Locations
Any locations covered by the publication or report. This is not the place the book or report was published.
Subjects / Periods:
19th century (Auto Detected Temporal)
Note
Note
Extra information on the publication or report.
Note:		 Supplementary material is available in the ADS Library
Source
Source
Where the record has come from or which dataset it was orginally included in.
Source:
Source icon
ADS Archive (ADS Archive)
Relations
Relations
Other resources which are relevant to this publication or report
Relations:
Created Date
Created Date
The date the record of the pubication was first entered
Created Date:		 11 Jun 2021