Vauxhall and Ranelagh and a few others were pleasure gardens of the 18th century in London. They were frequented largely by the well-off and the songs they produced were very distinctive having been published in numerous upmarket songsters of the period. Most of them are easily spotted by the flowery language with classical allusions and the idealistic situations they describe. Nymphs and shepherds, milkmaids and ploughboys abound. A large number of the flowery type hunting songs come from this source.

Some of us have found it necessary to plough through this dross (IMHO)in order to find the origins of some of the things we nowadays call folk songs. Some of the later songsters c1800 were published with tunes heavily laced with the output of the Dibdins, Dr Arne, Shield and the like. The Yorkshire Musical Miscellany, the Edinburgh Musical Miscellany. Thankfully those tunes that found their way into the folk canon were much simplified. However I've known at least 2 traditional singers who could sing 'Tom Bowling' with most of the original notation, not my cup of tea though.