About Little Sampford
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If the population is anything to go by, the Sampfords were relatively prosperous in the early nineteenth century. In 1801 Great and Little Sampford had 597 and 346 inhabitants respectively. By 1851 the figures were 906 and 471. In the centre of Great Sampford, the Red Lion Inn was built around 1830, and suggests that someone had plenty of money to erect such a fine brick building. However the figures oscillated through the later nineteenth century as agricultural depression bit and in 1901 the population was 496 and 296, with many people leaving for the towns, especially London, as the ease of travel increased. In 1875 the School Board had to defend themselves against an accusation that they had over-estimated the number of pupils they had to provide for by pointing out that a mass exodus had left twenty cottages uninhabited. Here was no rustic idyll. The 1871 census recorded 9 people living in sheds, and disease was rife with cholera striking in 1866 and typhoid several times in the 1870s. Improvements were being made, however. A school was built in 1870 and, for reasons of politics, was replaced by the current building in 1878.
It was two denuded villages that greeted the 20th century. Of 285 houses in the Sampfords in 1851, only 184 were inhabited seventy years later. On the other hand, despite general depression agricultural labourers were doing well. So many had left for employment in the cities that those who were left could name their wage, and many were able to take up small farms as a result.
Although some new houses were built along the Thaxted road in the 1920s, they did not return home to a land fit for heroes. Agriculture had prospered during the war, with cheap grain from North America restricted by U-boats. But prices crashed in 1921 and farming entered a deep slump that it would not recover from for nearly twenty years. The 1920s and 30s were characterised by poverty and struggle, with peopling leaving the village. In 1936 Jim Gray was offered £100 or a cottage in his uncles will, and took the money because he would not have to pay for its upkeep! Tithe was seen as an iniquitous tax, and at least three Sampford farmers took extreme measures, having to be prosecuted before they would pay. It was also at this time that the middle-class invasion of the countryside began.