APPENDIX TO CHAPTER IX 



SMALL HOLDINGS AT CASTLE MORTON, 

 WORCESTERSHIRE. 



CASTLE MORTON is a widely scattered village 

 bordering an unenclosed common of 600 acres. 

 It is four and a half miles south of Malvern Wells 

 Station and seven miles north of Tewkesbury. 



The parish of 3,694 acres is mostly in the hands 

 of a few large farmers holding under Lady Henry 

 Somerset and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; 

 that is to say, six men hold about 1,400 acres, five 

 average about 70 acres, and fifty have holdings 

 from 3 to 20 acres. There are about sixty 

 cottagers, with an average of J acre of land, 

 who, being near the common, are able to turn stock 

 out on it ; they are, however, for the most part 

 tied to the farmers, and in some cases are under a 

 week's notice. 



There are a certain number of small freeholds. 

 These were probably original squatters, paying an 

 acknowledgment to the Lord of the Manor. The 

 Ecclesiastical Commissioners bought much of the 

 property some years ago, and many of these small 



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