ee ees 
pieces) and a right on the common fields, common 
meadows, and other commonable places, for per- 
haps forty fheep, and as many cattle as they can 
winter with the fodder growing on the premifes. 
Inconveniencies attending it.—Much of the fingu- 
larity of the occupation of the lands in this diftrict 
arifes from its natural fituation. The fhape of the 
_ manors being, as was formerly explained, generally 
a narrow oblong, and frequently with the houfes 
and buildings at one end, there are many inftances 
where manors are near three miles long, and little 
more than half a mile wide. 
The application of the land is almoft uniform. 
The common meadows, of which the greateft part 
are watered, immediately adjoin the river: the 
houfes and fmall inclofures as near to it as poffible. 
Next follows the arabte land, until the land be- 
comes too fteep or too thin to plough, and then the 
fheep and cow downs, and frequently the woods at 
the extremity of the manor, and adjoining the 
downs or woods of the manors in the oppofite 
bourn. 
~ In fome inftances, particularly where the bourns 
approach their junctions, and fometimes at the 
heads of the bourns, the lands belonging to each 
manor are partly on one fide of the village, and 
partly on the other, whereby the occupation is ren- 
dered more convenient; but thefe inftances are 
comparatively few. 
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