AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

OF

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.

CHAPTER. 1.

Geographical State and Circumstances.

SECTION I.

SITUATION AND EXTENT.

aL es county of NOTTINGHAM is situated between fifty-two deg. fifty min. and fifty-three deg. thirty-four min. north latitude. It is about fifty miles in length, and twenty-five in breadth; and is supposed to contain about 480,000 acres. It has Derbyshire on the west, Yorkshire on the north, Lincolnshire on the east, and Leicestershire on the south.

SECT. II.—pivistons.

This county is divided into six wapentakes or hundreds, three of them south of Trent, viz. Ru sheliff, Bingham, and Newark hundreds, containing betwixt a third and fourth part of the county, and three north of Trent, viz. Basset- law, subdivided into North and South Clay, and Hatfield divisions,(which make it equal to three hundreds) Broxtow- Hundred and Thurgarton a Lee.— In the usual divisions of this shire Bassetlaw and Newark are equal to or set against the other four wapentakes, the town of Nottingham being left out.

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