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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Until inclosure c. 1816 open-field arable occupied the centre of the parish, between heath … in the south-east. The three principal manors had separate field systems. 96 That of Ditton Valence was apparently … and perhaps variable sizes. 97 Among the more stable field names were Ditch, Church, and Down fields in Ditton …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the site of the village (SP 635492) where within a single field several interesting features are preserved in pasture. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… within an unploughed strip within the common Three Hills Field. b(2) Barrow (SP 96109603), the northern of the Three … m. ( BNFAS, 4 (1970), 45). A gold coin found in 'Thrapston Field' probably came from here (J. Bridges, Hist. of … in 1731 (map in NRO) when it was all within a single field called Bateson's Close. The remains occupy a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… erected in 1913 from older stones. 21 There is a football field immediately north of the school. Buses run frequently … Upper Woodford Down beyond them. Lower Woodford had Church Field, Mill Bottom, Conygree Field, and Home Field, and, on the top of Smithen Down, Lower …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… this is an original feature. To the S. of this ditch, in a field ploughed and returned to grass, are the slight remains … depression, also cut back into the hillside. In 1840 this field was known as Pool Close. Above it to the N. are the …
A History of the County of Essex
… demesne included 5 parcels containing 5 a. in the common field. 12 The tithe map shows strips only in the common meadow (now Old Mill playing field). 13 By the mid 18th century the fields had been … licensed to dig clay from his land for this purpose. 36 A field in this corner of Woodford was called Long Tyle Killin …
A History of the County of Essex
… used as a clinic. Woodford's oldest secondary school is Bancroft's, founded in 1727 and moved to High Road, Woodford … first part of a new boys school was opened on the playing-field. The girls school took over the whole of the original … accommodated in two houses, which still survive, opposite Bancroft's school in High Road. In 1893 the school moved to …
A History of the County of Essex
… the only building there until it, in turn, was replaced by Bancroft's school in 1889. 33 After the break-up of the … On the opposite side of the road, to the south of Bancroft's school, some generously spaced mid-19th-century … of 30 a. is north of Snakes Lane, and Old Mill playing field (26 a.) and Nightingale recreation ground (40 a.) …
A History of the County of Essex
… called Manor House. 16 The site is now (1965) occupied by Bancroft's school. The overseers sometimes paid for nurses to …
A History of the County of Essex
… manor-house was probably at Woodford Bridge, where the field name Eldbury, mentioned above, survived until the 16th … divided into Knighton wood, Bristow's wood, and Pea Field wood. 111 James Robert Twentyman bought the estate in … E.R.O., D/DB T345 (deed of 1669). V.C.H. Essex, iv. 28. A field called 'The Ridges', always associated with the …