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An hazel coloured flrong foil upon a red loam, under 

 which, at the depth of about eighteen inches, is found a 

 blue and white chalky clay, intermixed with a few veins of 

 gravel; is the prevailing character of the foil and fubftrata 

 in the parilhes of WICKHAM St. PAUL's, GESTIN- 

 TPiORPE, and LITTLE YELDHAM. Adjoining the 

 village of GREAT YELDHAM, the foil, a tender loamy 

 gravel, of a good (laple, upon a gravelly loam, which gradually 

 difappears towards towards Little Yeldham on the eaft, and 

 Toppersfield on the weft, where the land becomes of a colder 

 nature, and is much to be improved by hollow draining. 



Eaft, and fouthof the town of CASTLE HEDINGHAM, 

 the foil of which forms a light coloured loam of a fair ftaple, 

 a brown clay, has been much improved by hollow draining, 

 and by the application of white chalky clay, it the expencc 

 and in the proportion following per acre : 



Four fcore loads of clay, filling and fpreading, 



at 5s. per fcore _._-^---- loo 

 Allowance for beer upon ditto - «- - -034 

 Five horfes, four days work, at 2s. 6d. per horfe 



per day - - - - - - ----2100 



Wear and tear of two tumbrells, four days, at 6d. 



each per day -- __-__ 040 

 Driver, four days work, including beer, at is. 6d. 



per day - - - — - - 060 



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To the northward of the town, the land becomes fuf. 

 ficiently light and dry to admit of the turnip hufbandry. 

 On the weft, the parifh is bounded by the river Colne ; 

 along whofe courfe is a confiderable trad of meadow and 

 rich hopland ; the culture and value of the produce per acre, 

 of the latter, taken on an average of ten years, is as fallows » 



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