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In fliort, all that vaft range of woods, called Stock* 
bury vallies, which extend from Key-ftreet to. Bin,- 
bury Pound, produce the chefnut in common with 
other trees ; the woods formerly belonging to the 
abbey of Lefnes, founded by Richard dc Lucie, chan- 
cellor and chief-juftice to Henry II. in the parUli of 
Earith, ftill called the Abbey woods, having great 
plenty of chefnut, both timber and ftub wood, and 
from the humps and ftools of large timber trees 
formerly felled, which ftools are now' quite hollow 
and'decayed, except the outward bark or fhell, round 
the crowns of which arife many ftools, and are cut 
for poles at the pmper growth. 
Church wood, in the fame parifti, has the likej 
and many others in this neighbourhood. 
In Wrotham parifh above Kemfing, is a wood 
belonging to a farm, called Cottons, which has chef- 
nut intermixed w'ith other trees. 
I could enumerate many more In different parts of 
this county, was it neceffary ; and I make no doubt, 
on due infpeftion, the like may be found in other 
counties of this kingdom: it is moft certain, the chef^ 
nut does not grow in every wood, but in fuch only, 
where the foil is adapted to it. Different ftrata will 
produce different trees ; as for example, the great 
wood called Jordens, in the parifhes of Bexley and 
North Cray, the woods beyond Ruxley towards 
Farningham, have fome acres nothing but birch, 
fome only hazel, &c. Godden-wood, in the parifti 
of Seal, is intirely birch. The woods on the Cold 
hills, of Chelsfield and Nockholt, run moft upon 
beech; and thofe in the Weald of Kent, upon a 
clayey foil, are chiefly oak, 
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