62 WESTMORLAND AGRICULTURE, 1800— 1900 



One yearling horse, mare or ass = 5 stints. 

 One 2-year-old horse, mare or ass = 7J stints. 

 Two geese = i stint. 



Kentmere Dale Head or Fell Head Common extending to 1893 

 acres is divided into 495 grasses, one grass to carry ten sheep or a 

 yearling horse ; horses above one year take two grasses. 



Wadshow common in Fawcett Forest extending to about 300 

 acres is divided into 30 cattlegates, a cattlegate being the summer 

 eatage of one cow, a horse being equal to two cattlegates. 



On Barbon Fell a shepherd is appointed by the commoners; 

 one was so appointed in 1904, and the following charges are levied : — 

 Jd. per week per sheep for those that pass through the gateway into 

 the Fell for 52 weeks, stay or not stay ; this is equal to is. id. per 

 year. Any one who is on the Barbon rate book is entitled to put as 

 many sheep as he likes on the Fell— the rights being unlimited — but 

 after the sheep are through the Fell gate they are in charge of the 

 shepherd and the owner has nothing to do with them till he brings 

 them away. 



In 1843 a return was made to Parliament of the true or estimated 

 quantity, in statute measure, of all common or waste lands not being 

 held in severalty in every parish or tithe commutation district, so far 

 as it could be ascertained from the schedules to the agreements or 

 awards, or from the apportionments received by the Tithe Commis- 

 sioners for England and Wales. In Westmorland the return refers 

 to 29 parishes or townships : — 



