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Agriculture of Berkshire. 
bourhood of Wokingham and Twyford, belonging to Wiltshire^ 
I have no doubt they are included. 
Mavor, in his Report to the Board of Agriculture, gives three 
different accounts of the area of Berkshire — one taken from the 
Trigonometrical Survey, by Government, which, including its 
insulated parts, computes it at 464,500 acres ; another, taken 
from the Report published by order of the House of Lords in 
1805, which states the area to be 744 square miles, equal to 
476,160 acres ; and a third, taken from Rocque's Map of Berk- 
shire, published in 1761, which gives 438,977 acres. 
Berkshire is divided into twenty hundreds, viz., Hormer^ 
Ock, Ganfield, Faringdon, Shrivenham, Wantage, Kintbury 
Eagle, Lam bourne, Faircross, Moreton, Reading, Compton, 
Charlton, Theale, Sonning, Wargravc, Baynhurst, Cookham, 
Bray, and Ripplesmere ; contains four boroughs, viz., Reading, 
Walllngford, Windsor, and Abingdon ; twelve market-towns, 
viz., Abingdon, Reading, Newbury, Windsor, Walllngford,. 
Maidenhead, Wokingham, Faringdon, Hungerford, East Ilsley, 
Wantage, and Lambourne. There are twelve unions in the 
county, containing 234 parishes (of which about one-third are in 
Oxfordshire, Hampshire, and Wiltshire), viz., Abingdon, 38 
parishes ; Bradfield, 29 ; Cookham, 7 ; Easthampstead, 5 ; Far- 
ingdon, 31 ;* Hungerford, 20 ; Newbury, 18 ; Reading, 3 ; 
Walllngford, 28 ; Wantage, 33 ; Windsoi-, 6 ; and Wokingham, 
16. The annual value, as assessed to the county-rate, Is 681,201/. 
Cost of police-force for the year 1859, at 2J(/. in the pound, was 
7095/. 16s. \Q\d. ; and other county expenses, at ?>\d. In the pound, 
10,643/. 15.9. 'ild. 
The population of Berkshire, according to the returns in 1841, 
was 161,759; and in 1851, 170,065, of which 84,927 were 
males and 85,138 females, being an increase of five per cent, in 
the ten years. 
The following Is an account of the Poor-rates, nut including 
those parishes which are attached to the unions but belong to 
other counties : — 
Amount Raised 
from Poor-Iiates. 
Amount p^xpended 
for Relief to Poor. 
Amount Expended 
for all purposes. 
£. 
£. 
£. 
For year ending Ladyday, 1857 
101,226 
77,805 
101,849 
,, ,, 1858 
95,048 
74,883 
101,669 
Physical Features and Rivers. 
Berkshire is bounded on the north, for a distance of nearly 
105 miles, by the river Thames, which separates it from the 
counties of Gloucester, Oxford, and Buckingham ; on the east 
