THE EAST ANGLIAN SYSTEM 



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acres lay in twenty-one strips, all non-contiguous, except that 

 three abutted upon others. The parcels, however, were not 

 widely scattered. All lay in the same part of the township not 

 far from the farmstead, and some were obviously either in the 

 same furlong or in adjacent furlongs. Another estate of 255 



Reduced Plan of an Estate belonging to the Girls' Hospital, 



Norwich, and situated in the Townships of Buxton, 



Haveringham, and Straton, Norfolk. Total area, 38 acres. 17U 



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Map XIII 



acres in Shropham lay on the edge of the common, from which 

 90 acres of '* Breck Lands " had been appropriated.^ Eighteen 

 other enclosures, which together contained about loo acres, were 

 for the most part detached from one another, and several had 

 evidently been strips of open field. The remaining 65 acres still 

 lay in open field divided into forty- two strips, some of which were 

 in the same furlong (here called " field "). Although the parcels 



' Cf. plate, p. 312. 



