Page "Box, Wiltshire" Paragraph 17

Unfortunately, this does not record the ordinary houses and cottages of the village but only the church, a few large houses and the mills.

From quarter session records we do know that there were a variety of trades present in Box including butchers, masons and alehouse keepers.

Weaving was a major home industry by this time with cloth woven in small workshops attached to people's homes, for the clothiers of the nearby towns.