General View of Agriculture county surveys

The General View series of county surveys was an initiative of the Board of Agriculture of Great Britain, of the early 1790s.

The Board, set up by Sir John Sinclair, was generally a proponent of enclosures.

[72][73][74][75] William Lester's History of British Implements and Machinery applicable to Agriculture (1811) drew heavily on extracts from the surveys, where those covered agricultural implements.

His introduction commented on the difficulty in referring farmers directly to the reports.

[76] Sir John Sinclair wrote a number of related works: