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  "A vicar once told me that couples usually married in the large diocese church, which could be several miles from their homes"
   Does this relate to large Northern parishes? In my Southern researches, couples married in the parish church where one or both of them were living, which could be some distance from their homes.
   Not sure what you mean by large diocese church?

  He was buried in Gravesend Municipal Cemetery. Were you aware that it was an accidental death and there are newspaper reports of the inquest?

  I did wonder about a horse and cart on lanes, so maybe I should go back to my original vision of them walking there. The classes were for 4-horse, 3-horse and 2-horse teams and most were 4-horse.

  As I mentioned in my recent post about turnips(!), I am writing a piece about the local ploughing matches. I blithely assumed that men and horses walked to and from the site, but then realised - what about the plough? Did one of the horses have to pull a wagon with the plough on it? Most of the teams were 3 or 4 horses, and the distances involved were between 2 and 5 miles. This is in the 1840s.

  But what does that mean?