ABSTRACT
The clay and miscellaneous soils of Lincolnshire, the fourth and last of Lincolnshire's main farming regions, are treated as one agricultural unit, though they are physically divided by the cliff and heath. The western portions lie along the boundary of Lincolnshire with Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, and form part of the claylands of the Trent valley. The principal crops of the claylands were wheat, barley, and peas, as in all other regions of Lincolnshire, but the balance struck between the crops most resembled the system in the marshland. Cropping arrangements differed in certain respects from those prevailing in Leicestershire. Manorial surveys of the claylands in the sixteenth century are not numerous, and therefore do not permit of fine regional analysis, but taken together they too portray a region of mixed husbandry, in which crop growing and stock raising were dovetailed together.
