LAND HOLDING 



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The total number of acres here accounted for, together with 

 the estimated extent of commons and waste lands total 449,442 acres, 

 or less by 51,464 acres than the official area of the county. It is 

 needless to go into the returns of the Statistical Department of the 

 Board of Trade relating to agriculture for the year 1875, they only 

 make confusion worse confounded, the total area accounted for being 

 96,000 acres less than the figures contained in the above report. At 

 the date the New Doomsday Book was prepared, mines and woods 

 except where they consist of or contain saleable underwood were 

 were not ratable, and property of this description is not contained 

 in the return. 



