[3]: 306 Arthur Young Junior wrote in the early nineteenth century that the cattle of the Weald "must be unquestionably ranked among the best of the kingdom".

[4]: 226  William Cobbett in his Rural Rides also expressed surprise at finding some of the finest cattle on some of the most impoverished subsistence farms on the High Weald.

High corn prices during the Napoleonic Wars led to a lot of grassland on the Low Weald being ploughed up and cattle herds greatly declined.

Later in the 19th century rail transport caused an increase in dairy farming to supply the London market with a consequent decline in beef cattle breeding.

[3]: 306  Also in the latter part of the twentieth century, a polled Sussex was created in the United Kingdom and in South Africa by cross-breeding with red Aberdeen Angus bulls.

[3]: 306  Oxen were used to draw ploughs, to pull carts and wagons, and to haul timber, often over ground that was too muddy or clayey for horses; spayed cows were also used for the same purposes.

[6] In 1797 a team of eighty-six oxen of this breed hauled a mill building a distance of some 3 km (2 mi) from Regency Square in Brighton to a new site on Dyke Road.