Barton Mere, about four miles from Bury St Edmunds, swells to twelve or fourteen acres in some years and shrinks to a pond or dries out in others. Suffolk people said that the price of corn rose and fell with it, and one old farmer used to ride out to look at the water before going to Bury market. Chambers’s correspondent noted in October 1862 that corn was very cheap and the mere nearly dry.
Barton Mere and the Price of Corn
Printed under 7 September · Barton Mere, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Lore and belief
The price of corn rises and falls with Barton Mere
From Chambers's Book of Days, vol. 2, p. 322. Read the original
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