WOTTON, (Hertfordshire) or WOODTON, is also called Watton at Stone, on the W. side of Sacomb, has a good fr. sc. for poor children, with some of whom 5 l. is given to put them out to trades, and is noted for the ancient seat of the Botelers. At that called Woodhall on the S. E. side of it, in a fine park that is watered with small streams that run S. into the Beane, and wooded with as good timber as any groves in the Km. About 46 years ago, one tree only in it was sold for 43 l. part of which, when slit, required 18 horses to draw it, and out of it was made the cutwater to the present Royal Sovereign. Another tree here, called the walking-stick, might have been sold some years ago for 50 guineas, but has since decayed by the burrowing of rabbets under it.