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22 COTTAGES* 
weather, without any particular attention haying been 
paid to comfort and convenience, but with the addi¬ 
tion of a garden for potatoes and other vegetables. 
The most comfortable cottages I had an opportunity 
of observing in the county, are in the parish of Broms- 
grove, and particularly in the neighbourhood of the. 
Lickey ; this having been a considerable waste of two 
or three thousand acres, a good many cottages had 
been long erected, and upon enclosure due attention 
has been paid to their rights by giving them an allot¬ 
ment of land. The same circumstance has also occurred 
at Bourn Heath, in the same parish, where about 
twenty cottagers existing thereon, had, upon enclosure, 
their land enfranchised, and they, as well as the before- 
mentioned, now live comfortably on their own pre¬ 
mises, with well cultivated gardens, potatoe grounds, 
and pigs, but no cows; the cottages are generally neat 
and comfortable, many of them new built with brick 
and tile : they are, in part, inhabited by farm la¬ 
bourers. 
In some of the older cottages, in the same parish, 
the occupiers are the owners, and besides potatoe 
grounds and gardens they have the addition of fruit 
trees, which adds considerably to their comforts. Mr. 
C. who lives in this neighbourhood, by my desire, at¬ 
tended me to many of these cottages ; several of them, 
are very properly built near a perennial stream of 
clear water, an object of considerable consequence, 
and which should be always had in view in the erec¬ 
tion of cottages, where there is the command of such 
convenience. 
Plate II. is a sketch of three cottages erected 
on the new inclosure of the Lickey, but built by a per¬ 
son to let j they are supplied by the same pump, and 
one 
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