The counties in which the greatest proportion of the land is devoted
to permanent pasture may be judged roughly from the list of "grass
counties" already given. Derbyshire, Leicestershire, the midland
counties generally, and Somersetshire, have the highest proportion,
and the counties of the East Anglian seaboard the lowest. But with
lands thus classified heath, moor and hill pastures are not included;
and the greatest areas of these are naturally found in the counties of
the Pennines and the Lake District, especially in Northumberland,
Cumberland, Westmorland and the North and West Ridings of Yorkshire.
There is also plenty of hill-pasture in the south-western counties
(from Hampshire and Berkshire westward), especially in Devonshire,
Cornwall and Somersetshire, and also in Monmouthshire and along the
Welsh marches, on the Cotteswold Hills, &c. In all these localities
sheep are extensively reared, especially in Northumberland, but on the
other hand in Lincolnshire the numbers of sheep are roughly equal to
those in the northern county. Other counties in which the numbers are
especially large are Devonshire, Kent, Cumberland and the North and
West Ridings of Yorkshire. Cattle are reared in great numbers in
Lincolnshire, Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire, Devonshire,
Somersetshire and Cornwall; but the numbers of both cattle and sheep
are in no English county (save Middlesex) to be regarded as
insignificant. Pigs are bred most extensively in Suffolk, Norfolk and
Lincolnshire and in Somersetshire.
Woodlands.
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