Broadlands Drainage. 
329 
As to the apfvlcultural results of the Broadlands drainage, the 
land chiefly affected by it is a fine grass farm, containing about 
450 .acres, between Romsey and Nursling, called Moorcourt, and 
the eflfect has been to reduce the water-meadows there from 100 
acres to 25, thus changing the land to dry meadows and intro- 
ducing the practice of cheese-making. Whether this be an altera- 
tion lor the better or for the worse remains to be seen. The water- 
meadows on this peaty soil are far from being equal to those 
which have a chalk or gravelly bottom ; so that their decrease 
may be compensated by the improvement of all the low-lying, 
rough, sedgy pasture on the farm, consequent on the improved 
outfall. 
11, There is no county in which more enclosures, in proportion 
to its size, have taken place within the last fifteen years than in 
this. The return in the note * shows that 13,514 acres have 
been enclosed since 1845. Probably there is but little land left 
the lands of lower owners^ the applicant paying all reasonable expenses. The 
right of landowners to discharge injurious waters through the interposing lauds 
of their neighbours to the natural outfalls is now legalised. — Mr. J. Bailey Denton's 
paper on Underdrainage, 1861. 
* Number of Acres inclosed in the County of Hants since 1845 to the present 
time : — 
Parish in which Land is situate 
Crondall 
Newton Valence 
Tadley 
Greatham 
Kingsworthy 
Illsfield 
Chale (Isle of Wight} .. 
Dockingfield 
Droxford 
Clatford, Upper and Lower 
Twyford 
Aldershot 
Bishops Waltham 
Bishopstoke 
Hambledon 
Binsted 
Bursledon 
Durley 
Morestead 
Headley 
Bentley 
Niton (Isle of Wight) 
Eotherwick 
Freshwater (Isle of Wight) 
Yately 
Sheet 
East Meon 
13,514 
Number of 
Acres. 
84 
170 
700 
87 
487 
181 
127 
185 
1,353 
80 
647 
2,715 
322 
192 
487 
1,137 
226 
125 
95 
1,668 
120 
457 
189 
100 
1,156 
280 
144 
Indosare Office, 11 Jan., 1861. 
