Agricultural Surveys: Cambridge (1811) |
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A. Y. Annals acre arable land average Babraham banks barley beans Bottisham brick-earth bushels per acre Cambridge Cambridgeshire chalk Chatteris Chippenham clayey Cloudy clover clunch cold cole fed cole-seed common corn cows crop Darnton deep Denver sluice ditto drainage draining drilled earth east Eau-brink enclosed expense fair staple farm farmers feed feet four gault grass gravel Hardwicke Harston Hauxton heath hemp horses improved inches Knapwell layer Leverington Leworthy loam loamy lying Lynn manure meadow Mepal mildew moor muck nature navigation oats open field opinion Ouse outfall Pare and burn parish pasture pease plough produce profit Rain ray-grass reddish-coloured rent river river Ouse SECT sheep silt similar soil sluice Soham sowing sown spring stone strong tares tender clay thence thin threshing tithes Trumpington turf turf moor turnips uplands Vancouver village Waterbeach Wedd wheat Whittlesea Wisbech