Rutland

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The smallest of the ancient counties of England by some margin, Rutland was also dwarfed in terms of population and wealth by the adjoining shires of Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. The county’s economy was based overwhelmingly upon arable farming, the rearing of sheep and cattle and the trade generated by its two modestly proportioned and ‘indifferently’ provisioned market towns, Oakham and Uppingham. R.