86 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



Section xvi. 



WOODS AND PLANTATIONS. 



J[n my firft report, I fiated, that the woodland, 

 of an old {landing, was not confiderable ; that a 

 fingle wood, or coppice, was found here and 

 there, but no great tra£t together j and that the 

 county was not remarkable, for any particular ap- 

 plication of the underwood, further than the mere 

 purpofe of fheep hurdles and materials for thatch- 

 ing. At that time, I confidered Foxley wood, 

 which is three hundred and nine acres, belonging 

 to Sir John Lombe, Bart, as the largeft in the 

 county, which I Hill believe to be the cafe ; but I 

 have fince learnt from Sir Thomas Beevor, that 

 there are feveral other confiderable woods in Afh- 

 well Thorpe, Hetherfet, Ketteringham, Hethel, 

 Bunwell, Hempnall, and Shottiiham, of eight 

 hundred or a thoufand acres, in the aggregate, be- 

 fides feveral other fmaller woods in other parts, 

 and that the underwood is ufed for hoops, as well 

 as thatching, and other purpofes of repairs. 



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