Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX VI. ACREAGE OF COMMONS AND COMMON FIELD LANDS IN EACH COUNTY IN ENGLAND AND WALES, COMPILED FROM THE TITHE COMMUTATION MAPS OF 1831, SO FAR AS THEY EXIST, WITH ESTIMATE BASED ON SAME AVERAGE FOR PARISHES WHERE MAPS DO NOT EXIST.--Parliamentary Jietum, 1874 (85). ENGLAND. Total, subject to Common Rights, 2,632,772. From this has to be deducted inclosures under private Acts between 1S34 and 1846; inclosures made under the Commons Act of 1876; and inclosures since 1834 under the Statute of Merton, or under customs of Manors. This does not appear to be accurate, as the New Forest alone consists of G3.000 acre. INDEX. Abbey of Chertsey, and Tooting Graveney, 84; and Couisdon Manor, 174 Abbey of Waltham Cross, 108 Abbot of Westminster and Wandsworth Manor, 99 Acreage of inclosurcs, made from the fall of the Stuarts to 184(3, 20; between 1845 and 1869, 23; since the Com-mons Act of 1876, 286 Act, the first Inclosure, 12; for the Bounds of Forests (Charles I.), 113; Commons (1866) (tee Metropolitan Commons Act); Commons, of 1876, 5, 278-281, 312, 313. (For other Acts and motions in Parliament on Common Lands, tee 1'arliaiuent.) Acton Common, Extent of, 327 Acts, Inclosure, between the fall of the Stuarts and 1846, 20 Agricultural Department (tee Board of Agriculture) Aleock, Mr. Thomas, and Banstead Manor, 190, 192; purchases the rights of commoners, 195; suit against, 198-209 Alfarthing, Manor of, 100 Althorpc, Viscount, and Earl Spencer, and the Manor of Mortlake, 92 Amherst, Lord, his interest in Hackney Commons, 319; the Metropolitan Hoard lones the action against, 320; purchase of his interest in Hackney I)owns and London Fields, 321; pur-chase of his interest in Hackney Marshes, 322 Anderida, Forest of, 161 Anne, Queen, ...
