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A History of the County of Oxford
… at Witney and Oxford. Many parishes lay within the royal forest of Wychwood and some, notably North Leigh, had the dispersed settlement pattern typical of forest areas; many were affected by intercommoning and other forest customs. In the Anglo-Saxon period Eynsham was an …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… woodland and was defined as a southern tail of Savernake forest. It remained part of the forest in 1330, when the land east and west of it was … when north of the parish the west part of Savernake forest was inclosed as Savernake great park, and later the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… part of the river Severn, and on the confines of a thick forest, it was selected as a place of strength and security. … some of the uninclosed parts of Bromsgrove-Lickey. Wyre Forest, to the left of Bewdley, besides its woodlands, … in a pleasant valley, near the northern extremity of the Forest of Sherwood, in the midst of a well-wooded and …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… by the [parlyers?] of Stooke Pryor [illegible] unto the Forest of Feckenham for the [ke...?] [illegible] of sheepe …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Cox John Tomson Mary Smith widdow Samuel Forrest John Forest Thomas Badger Thomas Allchurch Robert Darby John Cole Thomas Tibbits Humphery Forest Joseph Pratt Richard Hill John Mansell William Pike …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to have cost 168,960. The township comprises 2584 acres, Cheshire measure, whereof one-eighth is arable, and 82 acres … comprises about 12,440 acres, chiefly woodland forming the forest of Worth; the surface is undulated, and the substratum …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 77 and a Spiritual Healing Sanctuary was registered in Forest Road, Broadwater, in 1948. 78 A Spiritualist …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Hall is a small Roman Catholic chapel. Wrinehill, Cheshire.See Checkley. WRINEHILL, Cheshire.See Checkley. Wrington (All Saints) WRINGTON ( All …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in North Wales, and, in another direction, the plains of Cheshire, and the Derby hills. The manufacture of glass is … containing 679 inhabitants. This is part of the ancient forest of Lancaster; and at the Conquest is supposed to have …