Note 708 — Chapter XXI
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According to the Commission of 1894, the amount expended on improvements and repairs alone on some great estates was: On Lord Derby's, in Lancashire, of 43,217 acres, £200,000 in twelve years, or £16,500, or 7s. 8d. an acre, each year. On Lord Sefton's, of 18,000 acres, £286,000 in twenty-two years, or about £13,000, or 14s. an acre, each year. On the Earl of Ancaster's estates in Lincolnshire, of 53,993 acres, £689,000 was spent in twelve years, or 11s. 7d. an acre each year; and many similar instances are given.—Parliamentary Reports, Commissioners (1897), xv. 287-9.