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Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… 5 miles (8 km) south of the former market town of Burford, and 7 miles (12 km) south-west of Witney. The parish's name … gentry. 2 By contrast most Broadwell farmers were still copyholders with holdings of only 11 yardlands, and few … held in September or October. The chief business was copyhold land transfers and election of manorial officers, …
Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… Broadwell Parish: Filkins FILKINS TOWNSHIP The large and thriving village of Filkins, 12 with its concentration of high-quality stone-built cottages and farmhouses, lies near the county's western edge around 3 … Hewlett family held a slate quarry on Broadwell common by copyhold, 5 and some commoners dug small pits for their own …
Broadwell Parish: Holwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… parish, around 2 miles (4.5 km) south-west of Burford and 8 miles (13 km) west of Witney. Throughout its history it has been a small agricultural community, and during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries it became an estate village for …
Broadwell Parish: Kelmscott
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… known for its association with the designer, writer, and socialist William Morris (d. 1896), Kelmscott 6 remains a small and secluded hamlet, sharing much in common with its more … manors continued until the 1670s or later, granting copyhold lands and issuing field orders, and as late as 1600 …
Survey of London
… than the relatively tranquil offshoot between the Oratory and Pelham Street. But before 1855 there was no Cromwell … Cromwell Road connect with Hammersmith via Talgarth Road and so provide a major thoroughfare between London and the … on three separate freeholds and on one large tract of copyhold land. The landholdings along Brompton Road were at …
Survey of London
… extended up to the western continuation of Knightsbridge and another detached piece occupied the site of the present … of the fields or closes known as Wellfield, Greenfield and West or Wett Meads. 1 Like much of eastern Kensington, … family, which by 1675 also held thirty-three acres of copyhold land in Kensington, including the thirteen acres …
Survey of London
… South Side Nos. 1159 (odd) Brompton Road, Hans Crescent and Hans Road All these properties, stretching from the … of Sloane Street to the present No. 159 Brompton Road and to the parish boundary with Chelsea behind (see fig. 1 on … of Long Close or Long Field. Until 1842 this ground was copyhold land held of the manor of Earl's Court. In the early …
A History of the County of Somerset
… were recorded on the two Domesday estates of Broomfield and Blaxhold in 1086, but there were only 7 ploughteams to … manor were 135 sheep, 16 goats, 17 pigs, 13 cattle, and a riding horse. More than half of the land taxed was in … management can be traced from the later 16th century. Copyholders had the right to shroud trees in certain areas …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Broomfield Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The identifiable Domesday estates in the … associated with Somerton manor. 60 Its tenants, nominally copyholders, claimed in the 17th century to hold in fee …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… probably means 'woodland clearing of the fort guardian', and much of Broseley remained wooded in the Middle Ages. 12 … For 350 years from the late 16th century coal, ironstone, and clay were successively exploited in the riverside parish, … tried to rack. 16 In 1634 heriots were demanded from both copyhold and freehold tenements, and also a relief of a …