SOIL. 7 



ous tra6ts on a fine clay inarle, well worth 30s. an acre ; 

 equally good for turnips and wheat. Twaite, strong. 

 Hedingham, half strong, half mixed soil, none light. 

 Broom has some heavy, hut much gravel. Loddon, a 

 little strong, but all good. 



Chedgrave and Hardy, mixed ; average rent, 20s. 



Carleton and Ashby on loam ; and a little clay. Hil- 

 lington, Claxton, and Houlston, better ; all good. 



Brook divides the soils ; on one side the land is as fine 

 as in Fleg. 



Kirstead has a good soil. Stoke has some lieavy land. "^ 



There is a remarkable vein of strong clay soil, eight 

 miles long, and two wide, extending from Brook to Tas- 

 borough turnpike at the Bird-in-Hand; taking in a little 

 of Fladdon, and ending at Mulbarton ; this is all a strong 

 clay land, with many beans cultivated; it was not worth 

 above 8s. an acre ; but by draining, and other improve- 

 ments, is now brought to be good land. 



To the north of this line, towards Norwich, it is a 

 country of good mixed soil ; the worst of it is at Dunston- 

 hills, near Hartford bridges. To the south there lies also 

 a range of mixed soil, till it meets the strong land of Thel- 

 ton, Thorpe, Abbots, &c. 



Clavering hundred, all good land. 



Horsted and Belough, light. Wroxham, liglit. 



The soil at Coltishal is various, but much a light sandy 

 loam on a red running sand, three or four feet deep; then 

 a bed of flints, then more sand ; another bed of flints, and 

 then marie ; but little gravel. 



About North Walsham a mixed soil, that is, a sandy 

 loam ; some sand ; and the sub-soil sand : at the distance 

 of three or four miles, much on brick earth, and some on 

 clay marlc. 



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