The General View series of county surveys was an initiative of the Board of Agriculture of Great Britain, of the early 1790s. Many of these works had second editions in the 1810s.

The Board, set up by Sir John Sinclair, was generally a proponent of enclosures.S:Landholding in England/Chapter 19

England CountyTitleYearAuthorCommentBedfordshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford1794Thomas StoneBedfordshire was noted for barley, but had some market gardening. Joan Thirsk comments that the conservatism noted in the reports for arable farming was overstated.1808, 1813Thomas BatchelorIncluded contributions by Charles Abbot. Batchelor observed the expansion of straw plaiting, carried out largely by women and children.BerkshireGeneral View of the Agriculture in Berkshire1794William PearceGeneral View of the Agriculture of Berkshire1809, 1813William Fordyce MavorBuckinghamshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Buckingham1794William James, Jacob MalcolmJames and Malcolm were of Stockwell, according to the title page.General View of the Agriculture of Buckinghamshire1810 1813St. John Priest, Richard ParkinsonPriest wrote also Delectus Graecorum Sententiarum (1798). A Senior Wrangler, he was vicar of Scarning, and died in 1818. The title page mentions him as Secretary to the Norfolk Agricultural Society.CambridgeshireGeneral View of the Agriculture in the County of Cambridge1794Charles VancouverVancouver and then Gooch listed 26 parishes where underdraining had been carried out as a land improvement.1811, 1813William GoochWilliam Gooch, A.B. was a cleric who signed the work in 1807 from Whatfield parsonage, Suffolk. Gooch, a neighbour and protégé of Arthur Young, was a curate there when brought in to revise the Cambridgeshire survey. Young then recommended him to John Upton, 1st Viscount Templetown as agent for Castle Upton, an appointment that had a poor outcome.CheshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County Palatine of Chester1794Thomas WedgeGeneral View of the Agriculture of Cheshire1808, 1813Henry HollandHolland advocated for threshing machines, and paring and burning (a technique for bringing land into cultivation).CornwallGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Cornwall1794Robert Fraser1811George Bouchier WorganWorgan, who had fallen into financial difficulties, was given the task of revising the survey by Young, after Richard Parkinson and Humphry Davy had turned it down The report was worked over by Charles Penrose, the Rev. Robert Walker, and the Rev. Jeremiah Trist.CumberlandGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of CumberlandJohn Bailey, George CulleyBailey was land agent to Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville, at Chillingham Castle. -DerbyshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Derby1794Thomas BrownGeneral View of the Agriculture and Minerals of DerbyshireI (1811) II (1813) III (1817)John Farey, Sr.DevonGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Devon1794Robert FraserGeneral View of the Agriculture of Devon1808, 1809Charles VancouverThe survey noted that pack horses, except in hilly areas, were being replaced by wagons and carts. In general the county's agriculture was not in period of rapid change.DorsetGeneral View of the Agriculture, in the County of Dorset1793John ClaridgeClaridge was of Craigs Court, London.General View of the Agriculture of the County of Dorset1812William StevensonCounty DurhamGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Durham1794Joseph GrangerIntroduction by Sir William Appleby. Granger was a land surveyor at Heugh, near Durham.1810John BaileyEssexGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Essex1794Messrs. GriggsThis was a short report of 29 pages. The Griggs were of Hill House, Kelvedon.General View of the Agriculture in the County of Essex1795Charles VancouverGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Essex I, II1807Arthur YoungGloucestershireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Gloucester1794George TurnerTurner was of Dowdeswell.1807Thomas RudgeHampshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Hants1794Abraham and William DriverThe authors were great-uncles of Robert Collier Driver, and were land agents and surveyors in Surrey. Included was Richard Warner, on the Isle of Wight.General View of the Agriculture of Hampshire, Including the Isle of Wight1810Charles VancouverHerefordshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Hereford1794John ClarkIt has been commented that Clark gave two pages to mistletoe, but had only a few words for Hereford cattle.1805John DuncumbHertfordshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Hertford1795D. WalkerGeneral View of the Agriculture of Hertfordshire1804Arthur Young -HuntingdonshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Huntingdon1793George Maxwell1793Thomas Stone??General View of the Agriculture of the County of Huntingdon1811Richard ParkinsonKentA General View of the Agriculture of the County of Kent1786John BoysLancashireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Lancaster1794John HoltGeneral View of the Agriculture of Lancashire1815Richard Watson DicksonLeicestershireGeneral View of the Agriculture of Leicester1794John MonkMonk reported on the sheep breeding of Robert Bakewell.General View of the Agriculture of the County of Leicester1819 (ODNB)William PittLincolnshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of Lincoln1794Thomas Brace StoneGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Lincoln1799Arthur YoungGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of LincolnshireArthur YoungMiddlesexGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Middlesex1793Thomas Baird1794Peter FootSurveyor of Dean Street, Soho, London.1798, 1813 (2nd edition)John MiddletonOn the 1813 title page, Middleton is described as a land surveyor, and as farming at West Barns Farm, Merton, and Lambeth, Surrey.NorthamptonshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Northampton1809 (ODNB)William PittGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of NorthamptonshireJames DonaldsonNorthumberlandGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of NorthumberlandJohn Bailey, George CulleyNorfolkGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk1794Nathaniel Kent1804, 1813Arthur YoungNottinghamshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Nottingham1794, reprinted 1798Robert LoweRobert Lowe, of Oxton, was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1802. Father of Rev. Robert Lowe (1780–1845), rector of Bingham, he was grandfather of Robert Lowe the Chancellor of the Exchequer.OxfordshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Oxford1794Richard Davis1809Arthur YoungRutlandGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Rutland1794John Crutchley1808Richard ParkinsonShropshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Salop1794John Bishton senior (ODNB)General View of the Agriculture of Shropshire1803Peter Plough (collective pseudonym)Joseph Babington, John Stackhouse, Thomas Telford, Robert Townson and William Withering were involved in the compilation; also William Reynolds. The editor was Joseph Plymley, from 1804 Joseph Corbett.H. S. Torrens, Arthur Aikin's Mineralogical Survey of Shropshire 1796–1816 and the Contemporary Audience for Geological Publications, The British Journal for the History of Science Vol. 16, No. 2 (July 1983), pp. 111–153, at p. 146. Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The British Society for the History of Science 1812Joseph Plymley?SomersetGeneral View of the Agriculture in the County of SomersetJohn BillingsleyBillingsley went to the antiquarian Richard Locke for information.StaffordshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of Stafford1794 (ODNB)William PittSuffolkGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Suffolk1794, 1797Arthur YoungSurreyGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Surrey1794William Malcolm1809William StevensonSussexGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Sussex1793, 1808? (ODNB)Arthur Young (the Younger)WarwickshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Warwick1794John WedgeGeneral View of the Agriculture of Warwick1815Adam MurrayWestmorlandGeneral View of the Agriculture of Westmoreland1794Andrew PringleWiltshireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Wiltshire1794Thomas DavisWorcestershireGeneral View of the Agriculture of the County of Worcester1794William Thomas Pomeroy1813 (ODNB)William PittYorkshire, East RidingGeneral View of the Agriculture of the East Riding of Yorkshire1794Isaac Leatham1812Henry Eustasius StricklandStrickland (1777–1865) was the youngest son of Sir George Strickland, 5th Baronet.VIAF recordYorkshire, North RidingGeneral View of the Agriculture of the North Riding of Yorkshire1794John TukeTuke was a land surveyor of Lincroft, near York.Yorkshire, West RidingGeneral View of the Agriculture of the West Riding of Yorkshire1794, 1799Robert Brown, George Rennie, John ShirreffIn 1794, the authors signed (p. 8) from Haddington, East Lothian.

Ireland CountyTitleYearAuthorCommentKing's County (now County Offaly)General View of the Agriculture and Manufactures of King's County1801Sir Charles Coote, 2nd BaronetCoote (1765–1857) was the illegitimate son of Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont.Queen's County (now County LaoisGeneral View of the Agriculture and Manufactures of Queen's CountySir Charles CooteCounty WicklowGeneral View of the Agriculture and Mineralogy, Present State and Circumstances of the County of Wicklow1801Robert Fraser

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