💩🐷🐎🐄💩This actually wasn't that far off...💩🐄🐎🐷💩
“Through my research I also discovered that life was pretty dirty in those days. It wasn’t all clean and pristine. That really comes across. I had the feeling of sweat and smells and earthiness. When Lizzie is twirling on the swing in the courtyard, you can almost smell the manure.”
From The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain by Ian Mortimer on page 17:
"...if you've just bought a handsome new house in the centre of town, the last thing you want is hundreds of grumting, lowing and bleating animals outside your front door, with all the smells, dung and piles of straw that go with them....Towns that still have their crooked street, narrow lanes and central markets are considered old and dirty."