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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Pickering, at the distance of a few miles, commence dreary wastes, bounded only by the horizon. Some of the hills, … have been made in the low country to the west of them. The wastes, about the end of the last century, were calculated in … by numerous inclosure acts, obtained both for the detached wastes and for parts of the Moorlands. The surface of some of …