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In the north there are a number of districts where the fen land has depreciated 

 but httle, and some where it has not depreciated at all, while in the south there are 

 large tracts where the deteriorated state of the land is painfully apparent to all, 

 being practically worthless to owner and occupier ahke, and scarcely able to be 

 designated as cultivated. Between Cambridge and Huntingdon the state of the land 

 is as bad as in the worst districts in Suffolk, and in some other locahties it is Httle if 

 any better.' 



Fig- 31- 

 Population changes in Cambridgeshire (including the Isle of Ely), 1801-1931. I am 

 indebted to the Editor of the Victoria County Histories (Mr L. E. Salzman) for access to 

 the Population Tables (by G. S. Minchin) in the forthcoming Cambridgeshire, vol. ii. 



On the upland areas of the County, it was generally acknowledged that 

 there was "a great deal of rough land very nearly out of cultivation". 

 Captain Hurrell of Madingley, "in a nine mile run vnth the hounds",' 



' W. Fox, Royal Commission on Agriculture: Report on Cambridgeshire (1895), 

 pp. 25-6. "Between Cambridge and Huntingdon" was heavy clayland (see Fig. 29). 



See also R. Bruce, "Typical Farms of East Anglia", Jour. Roy. Agric. Soc. (1894), 

 p. 497, for details of farms at Barton, Bourn, Linton, Little Eversden, Littleport, 

 Trumpington, and Whittlesford. 



* See W. Fox, op. cit. pp. 26-7 for the quotations that follow in this and the next 

 paragraph. 



