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SOIL AND SURFACE. 
Brought over Arable land 
Natural meadows on the Severn, Avon, 
Teme, Stour, Salwarp, and other 
rivers, brooks, and rivulets, part of 
this peat, part sediment from the 
streams 
Grass land in permanent pasture, in¬ 
cluding parks, plantations, and plea¬ 
sure grounds 
Woodlands, roads, rivers, waters, towns, 
villages, buildings, yards, and gar¬ 
dens 
Wastes and commons 
Total 
Acres. 
360,000 
50,000 
50,000 
20,000 
20,000 
500,000 
Of the arable land, the common fields 
may be -- -- -- 20,000 
Inclosed ditto -- -- -- 340,000 
Permanent grass land as above -- 300,000 
Kitchen gardens, suppose -- 5,000 
Wood, wastes, roads, rivers, &c. -- 35,000 
Total 500,000 
The orchards and hop grounds must be included in 
the arable and grass land, the former are often culti¬ 
vated for grain, and sometimes at grass, the vacant 
spaces between the hop plants are also sometimes 
cultivated for potatoes, cabbages, turnips, and pulse, 
particularly in new-planted hop grounds. 
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