ABSTRACT
The Lincolnshire's farming regions consists of the limestone and chalk uplands divided from each other by the broad clay vale of central Lincolnshire, but enforcing upon their cultivators a roughly similar husbandry. The profits of wool were often the largest single source of revenue to the upland farmer, and wool in store was a regular, and often a considerable item of personal property waiting to be valued at death. The average farmer's flock numbered thirty-four sheep in the sixteenth century, compared with an average of forty sheep in the marshland, but it was more than the average of twenty-six in the claylands and twenty in the fenland. The chalk wolds lie to the east of the central clay vale next to the marshland. In the extreme south where the wolds dip gently into the fen, much of the chalk has been washed from the hillsides, bringing the underlying clay and Spilsby sandstone to the surface.
