Forty Years in a Moorland Parish - Reminiscences and Researches in Danby in Cleveland #229786

Again, the farms are all, as they have always been, small. Lord Downe has taken the one that exceeded 200 acres into his own hands, paring off a field or two on the outskirts that could be laid with advantage to the adjoining farms. But with the exception of that farm there is no other in the parish with so much as 145 acres of arable land in it. In all, there may be now six or eight farms of more than 100 acres 5 all the rest, in number hardly if at all under seventy, and exclusive of small holdings or cow-keepings, scarcely average seventy five acres each.