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In the Valley of the Great Ouse, rents up to 40s. 



Near Fakenham, rents 10s. to 20s. 



Near East Dereham, rents about 15s. 



Near Downham, rents 17s. 6d. 



Between Holt and North Walsham, rents 18s. to 25s. 



Near North Walsham on the coast, rents 30s. to -40s. 



Between Attleborough and Downham, rents 7s. 6d. to 15s. 



Near Buckenham, rents 10s. to 20s. 



Near Loddon, rents 12s. and 20s. to 30s. 



Some information as to rental values may be obtained from an 

 article in Vol. 70, for December, 1907, of the .Journal of the 

 Royal Statistical Society. It is by R. J. Thompson, and is entitled 

 " An Inquiry into the Rent of Agricultural Land in England and 

 Wales during the Nineteenth Century." 



On p. 596 he gives a table showing that for 399,043 acres 

 distributed over England the average rent per acre in 1899 to 

 1900 was 20s. On the whole area of 482,000 acres, for which he 

 has particulars for that year, the average rent works out at 

 22s. 2d. per acre. 



On p. 612, Appendix A. The average rent per acre of agricul- 

 tural land on certain estates in Lincoln, Hereford, Essex, and 

 North Wales in 1900. of which the total acreage was 71,469, was 

 14s. 7d. 



Appendix B. The average rent per acre of agricultural land 

 on certain estates in Lincoln, Hereford, Buckinghamshire, 

 Bedfordshire, Cambridge, Essex, and North Wales in 1900, of 

 which the total acreage was 119,178, was 17s. 2d. 



On p. 615 are given the rents of certain individual farms, as 

 follows : 



Rent per acre. 

 £ s. d. 



Farm of 204 acres in Wilts, in 1907 1 4 6 



Farm of 225 acres in Norfolk, in 1905 ... 14 3 



Four typical farms in the South Midlands 



Rent per acre, 

 s. d. 



Farm C, 359 acres 16 9 



Farm D, 122 acres 16 4 



Farm E, 417 acres ... ... ... ... 15 9 



Farm F, 467 acres 17 11 



Further information as to rental values may be obtained from 

 the last Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, 

 Forests, and Land Revenues, dated June 27th, 1911. 



