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A History of the County of Somerset
… Old park in 1540 79 and thereafter was divided into large fields. 80 Nevertheless, in a lease of an adjoining cottage … on the boundary with Pitcombe. There were two open arable fields; the west field extended from Lodge Hill to the lands … the rector had shared pasture for sheep in the common fields. 83 A lease of 1694 included closes lately inclosed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… may indicate that the parishes once shared a single set of fields. The medieval yardland in Yarnton seems to have … 18 By the later 13th century land perhaps lay in two fields; in 1272 and 1304 there were said to be 160 a. of … had doubled. 48 The stint for common grazing in Yarnton fields in the early 17th century was apparently 10 beasts and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1960s has restored something of the contrast between open fields to the north and thickly hedged closes to the south … for Dorothea Dashwood, widow of Robert. Though Yarnton's fields were inclosed early, 12 each farm's closes tended to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… all over the E. side of the village and in the surrounding fields (local information). Two keys, one iron and the other … Medieval and Later (9) Cultivation remains. The common fields were enclosed by an Act of Parliament of 1777 (map of … arrangements before that date. Ridge-and-furrow of these fields can be traced on air photographs only in the area S. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the parish, and perhaps west of the village where fields were called sleights in the earlier 19th century and … of two of the manors in the parish had its own set of open fields and the third probably had. 67 The arable of Yatesbury manor remained in open fields until the mid 19th century. 68 In 1795 Bourne field, …