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Railway Navvies of the SVR

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245 were listed as 'head of household', 313 as lodging in other people’s homes, 123 in inns and lodging houses and 60 in 'temporary or makeshift accommodation' which could have included turf and mud huts, caves and old lime kilns. Census details for the navvies working on the 10 miles of the railway in Worcestershire would presumably have been in similar proportions<ref name=JM>[[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] pp. 46-47.</ref>.
The 1861 census population tables attribute the increase of the population of Shineton, near Wenlock Edge, <ref>[https://archive.org/details/b24751261_0001/page/458/mode/1up Census of from 138 in 1851 to 175 as being due to England and Wales for the "temporary presence of labourers employed year 1861 : population tables, on the Severn Valley Railway works"archive.org]</ref> and Upper Arley,<ref>[https://archive.org/details/b24751261_0001/page/458471/mode/1up Census of England and Wales for the year 1861 : population tables, on archive.org]</ref>as being due to temporary workers employed on the railway.
==Newspaper reports==

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