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Report, for the same year, relating to the other royal forests in 
this county : — 
Receipts. Expenuituke. 
£ s. d. £ s. d. 
Alice Holt 1,490 8 11 1,14G 3 0 
VVoolmer 1,290 10 5 .. 308 0 2 
Bore 3,016 17 3 .. 1,061 18 6 
raikluirst 819 12 9 .. 843 18 10 
Alice Holt and Woolmer are, in fact, one forest, divided by 
intervening property, much as the western and eastern districts 
of the New Forest. The former has been much enclosed, but 
still has 780 acres of woods of the Crown. Woolmer is only 
partially in this county. It never had (as Gilbert White's de- 
scription of its soil shows) much wood : it is now enclosed and 
planted wherever worth enclosure. The rights of the commoners 
were commuted for land, under an Act of Parliament for the 
purpose, about two years since. Bere is all enclosed, and about 
half of it under cultivation. Parkhurst is little else than a planta- 
tion of Scotch and larch nurses for oak. All these figures show, 
to those who have read Parliamentary Reports, a vast improve- 
ment in the administration of these forests within the last ten 
years. 
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