JOURNAL 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
OF ENGLAND. 
I. — Agriculture of Nottinghamshire. By R. W. Corringham. 
Prize Report. 
In taking a survey of the agriculture of Nottinghamshire, the 
county will, from the different character of its soils, naturally 
divide itself into two principal districts; the one extending over 
the whole of the eastern and southern sides of the county, may be 
termed the south-eastern ; the other may be distinguished simply 
as the western, as it narrows itself to an angle in the north. In 
these two divisions differences of soil occur which will be noticed 
as we proceed. Thus by drawing an imaginary line from Not- 
tingham to East Retford the county is divided diagonally, leaving 
the former of these districts, viz. the south-eastern, which is com- 
posed of a variety of soils, but chiefly of those of a somewhat 
tenacious character, almost or altogether free from the sand or 
gravelly soil of which the western is in a great measure composed. 
The principal geological formation in the county of Notting- 
ham is the new red sandstone, which may be shortly described as 
consisting chiefly of clays, sandstones, and sandy conglomerates, 
of various colours, red, white, and green, in their various alter- 
nations. In Nottinghamshire this formaticm is, to a considerable 
extent, a conglomerate ; there are found also various marls and 
gypsum. 
^ On the western side of the county the magnesian limestone 
crops out, and its eastern boundary may be pretty clearly defined 
by a line commencing a few miles to the north-west of Notting- 
ham, and passing through Mansfield and Cuckney, a little to the 
west of Worksop and Blyth, and through Tickhill. This forma- 
tion runs northward, with a slight inclination to the west, as far 
as Ripon and Masham in Yorkshire. 
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