tied cottage

He lives in a tied cottage owned by them.

He had left the castle and walked to the row of tied cottages by the gatehouse.

The book was influential in the abolition of the tied cottage in the years following the war.

Many clients had lived in traditional tied cottages.

Strictly speaking, the tied cottage is not, historically or legally, a feudal institution.

It - it's a sort of a tied cottage."

The tied cottages meant that a worker losing his or her job could be almost simultaneously evicted.

Agriculture tied cottages are houses provided by farmers as part of their workers' terms of employment.

Several farming properties and tied cottages carry emblems or design features of these estates.

The Act gives protection, if sometimes uncertain protection, to most full-time workers living in agricultural tied cottages.

In addition there is one other institution which symbolizes the continuing dependency of agricultural workers upon local farmers - the tied cottage.

The dismissed workers and their families, living in tied cottages, suffered distress and some "went on the parish".

Tom obtained employment with a daffodil farmer, and a small tied cottage went with the job.

Clements (1978) goes so far as to suggest that this Act may precipitate the demise of agricultural tied cottages.

In fact, the Act (which is an extremely complicated piece of legislation) did not succeed in abolishing the tied cottage.

There were tied cottages on the Sandringham estate.

The regional distribution is important, but at a local scale it is the location of tied cottages that is crucial.

Grandfather's wage was the magnificent sum of twelve shillings per week and of course he lived in a tied cottage.

The crux of the tied cottage problem, it was argued, was the shortage of rural housing.

The race is named after Tied Cottage, a National Hunt horse who won the event in 1980.

Improvements to the security of tenure available to occupants of agricultural tied cottages were made by the Agriculture Act 1970.

Only in Wales, Yorkshire and Lancashire do tied cottages house fewer than one-third of agricultural workers.

Does my hon. Friend accept my view that the Labour party would really like tied workers living in tied cottages?

Housing remains important though (see below), and the AWB controls the rent of the tied cottage.

The Swindells did not build tied cottages for their workers- but were generous benefactors of the local Methodist church.