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CHAPTER XL 
WASTES. 
The waste lands of this county are not verr consi¬ 
derable, and consist of high hilly grounds, or email 
commons or wastes, detached and dispersed over va- 
rious parts of the county. 
Of the high hilly grounds, the upper parts of 
Malvern Hill, are the most elevated; these being 
rocky, are generally impracticable for cultivation, 
and must therefore ever remain sheep walk orplan- 
tation; the upper parts of Bredon Hill, near Per- 
shore, of Abberley, and Whitley Hills, and some of the 
unenclosed parts of Bromsgrcve Lickey, are in the 
same predicament; these are adapted for timber plan¬ 
tations. 
The waste lands, according to Mr. Pomeroy, and 
which agrees with my estimate, do not exceed 20,000 
acres, the greater part of which is capable of being 
converted into good arable land ; at present they are 
in a state of nature, overrun with furze, heath, and fern ; 
and summer a few sheep, of the short wool kind, but 
of an indifferent breed. 
Mr. Oldacre says, the extent of waste lands is but 
trifling, and those are depastured with sheep, cows, or 
horses; a certain number to what is called a yard 
land. One cow, or horse, is reckoned equal to three 
sheep, 
