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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… even when held by the same incumbent as Woodditton; 12 in 1747 it became formally a distinct ecclesiastical parish. … cut Wood Ditton into a thousand shreds and patches'. 14 In 1815 the inclosure commissioners added the detached parts … 15 Woodditton traditionally looked to Newmarket as its market town, and to Bury St. Edmunds rather than Cambridge …
A History of the County of Essex
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. The wealth of woodland in Woodford long determined the economic life of the village, … pannage was important. 2 Some clearances had been made in the woodland at an early date. In 1066 there was arable … Wheat, oats, and peas were being grown for the London market, but pasture farming was more profitable. Londoners …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of … Lincoln, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Horncastle; containing, in 1841, 307 inhabitants. This parish, along the western … WOODHAY, WEST ( St. Lawrence), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Hungerford, hundred of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodyates, West Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a tything, in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of … 256 inhabitants. Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a parish, in the union of Steyning, hundred of Tipnoak, rape of … High Carricks ground. Woodstock WOODSTOCK, a borough and market-town, having separate jurisdiction, and the head of a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… was one ploughteam on the Woodmancote manor demesne farm in 1086. 70 The farm had 114 a. in 1339 71 and 118 a. in 1434. 72 On the Morley manor demesne … by the parish council existed in 1920 on Wick farm. 43 A market gardener was recorded in 1866, 44 and in 1875 there …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Village Map Woodnewton is a parish of 565 hectares in the Forest of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side … and fertile soil on the S. side of the street gave rise in the 19th century to a market gardening business based on the rapid transport of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Key to Buildings Section Scale 1:3,348 (approx. 19 in. to 1 mile). Quitrents imposed on the town's original … burgages survived until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 … perhaps built on in the early Middle Ages to close off the market area of Oxford Street. 8. Nos. 70-4 Oxford Street By …
A History of the County of Oxford
… doorway provides the earliest evidence of building in the town. The town in the later Middle Ages probably covered less than 40 a.; … In 1204 the town was farmed for only £4, which included market tolls and quitrents or 'landgable', small annual rents …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Economic history Economic history In the century after its foundation the town prospered, acquiring a fair in addition to its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Introduction Introduction In 1279 local jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded … park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is supported in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's …