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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles (S. W.) from Stroud; containing 908 inhabitants. This place is … to the Society of Antiquaries by Samuel Lysons, Esq., F.S.A., who published an elaborate account of these relics in … r. 11 p., of which 1571 acres are arable, 658 pasture and meadow, and 12 woodland. The Hall, now a respectable …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… No teams were employed on the demesne of Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small acreages of pasture and meadow were recorded on the manorial demesne, 9 which was … during the 16th century. 10 The tenants on Brictric's estate in 1086 included 16 villani and 12 bordars working …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 99 Each manor had a home farm in 1086. 1 Ditton Camoys's had only two ploughteams but expanded by the later 13th … or fields south-east of Ditton Green. 3 Ditton Valence's home farm, with four teams in 1086, was diminished by … a. under corn in 1302 and c. 225 a. after 1350. 5 Saxton's home farm had three teams in 1086 and 300 a. of arable in …
The Environs of London
… about 2000 acres of land, of which the greater part is meadow and pasture. A considerable part of the forest of … free from the payment of the same, when they came to God's board, might say a Pater noster and an Ave for his soul, … Alderman of London, 1625; Anne, wife of Thomas Holbech, S. T. P. daughter of Patrick Melvill, 1666; Richard Bayly, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… includes buildings on each side of the road at Druid's Lodge, in the extreme north-west of the parish. In 1951 the … a 'chapel' and may have been the site of the former bishop's residence, pulled down in the early 16th century. 13 Avon … in Heale consisting of one messuage, 48 a. arable, 1 a. meadow, and common of pasture was held in 1324 by Robert …
A History of the County of Essex
… by manorial tenants had fallen to seven. The 26 a. of meadow by the river accounts for the large number of 100 … paid a money rent 8 and sent one man to work in the lord's meadow at hay-time and two or three men to the boon works, … that the water pent up for Sir Bernard Whetstone's mill flooded the highway. 24 By 1635 the mill had been …
A History of the County of Essex
… portion of the village towards the river. The rector's glebe was also at this end of Woodford. The church and … building there until it, in turn, was replaced by Bancroft's school in 1889. 33 After the break-up of the Wanstead House … quite uncommonly complete stretch' of them near St. Mary's church in South Woodford, 'some in generous gardens'. 62 At …
A History of the County of Essex
… by which Edward the Confessor confirmed Harold's grant of lands to the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 The … cynges hcce. If the last was Chingford Hatch, the alderman's hatch must have been in the south-west corner of Woodford; … Woodford Row, besides several small crofts and pieces of meadow. 139 John Pylbarough remained as tenant after the …
A History of the County of Essex
… succession his younger brother William (1619) and William's son Richard (1645). 6 In 1824 the next presentation was … duchess of Bedford (d. 1920). 10 In 1930 the duchess's executors sold it to the diocese, for vesting in the … with a close of 3 a. beside the barn. There were 3 a. of meadow in the common mead, 'the Parson's Grove', and another …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Horncastle; containing, in 1841, 307 inhabitants. … parish comprises 1407 acres, of which 788 are arable, 384 meadow, pasture, and down, 169 wood, and 65 furze, waste, &c. …