A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS FOR COUNTY DURHAM 

 (Extracted from Agricultural Returns for Great Britain) 



The total extent of land in the county is 645,926 acres, of which 

 434,926 are under crops and pasture, the remainder being moor and moun- 

 tain land. The earliest reliable agricultural returns were taken in 1867, and 

 the figures are given for that year, for every ten years from 1870 onwards, 



1 Not including moorland and mountain pasture. 

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