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hold tenures, particularly in thofe parts which have 
been inclofed and laid down to pafture. That 
many manors, neverthelefs, remain in their origi- 
nal common-field ftate, and are ftill granted out 
on the fame lifehold tenures, particularly thofe in 
mortmain, belonging to churches, colleges, {chools, 
and other pious and publick foundations; but that 
upon the whole, property is much more divided 
than in the South-eaft diftrict of the county. And 
although the prefent occupation of fome parts of 
the county is in fome inftances in a few hands, 
particularly fome great dairy and grazing farms in 
the North part, and a few large corn farms in the 
North-weft part, yet a great part of the diftrict may 
{till be faid to be much fubdivided in its occupation, 
particularly in the neighbourhood of the manufac. 
turing towns, 
MODE OF OCCUPATION, 
Tus diftrict is for the moft part inclofed, though 
not entirely fo, there being ftill a few common- 
fields remaining, and fome commons, but no very 
extenfive tracts of either. 
The ftone-brafh land, on the North-weft verge, 
is chiefly arable. 
A great part of the refidue is in grafs land, and 
a great proportion of that part. is applied to the 
dairy, 
