A moiety, at least, of the arable land in Berkshire, is still lying in common fields ; and though it is not divided into such very small parcels, as in some other counties, the farmer labours under all the inconvenience of commonable land ; and by that,... A review of the reports to the Board of agriculture - Page 48by William Humphrey Marshall - 1817Full view - About this book
| Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1900 - 392 pages
...(above, p. 284). But Pearce, writing in 1794 after the inclosures of the eighteenth century, states that 'a moiety, at least, of the arable land in Berkshire is still lying in common fields' (General View of the Agriculture of Berkshire, 1794, p. 49). Between 1794 and 1808 Mavor estimated... | |
| Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1912 - 530 pages
...were 220,000 acres of open-fields, and downs, to 170,000 acres of inclosed land. Half of the county " is still lying in common fields ; and though it is...treating his land, so as to return the produce which it ought to do, if entire, and under a good course of husbandry." " We generally see on all the commons... | |
| Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle - 1917 - 534 pages
...were 220,000 acres of open-fields, and downs, to 170,000 acres of inclosed land. Half of the county " is still lying in common fields ; and though it is...treating his land, so as to return the produce which it ought to do, if entire, and under a good course of husbandry." " We generally see on all the commons... | |
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