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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… him at Cranborne, thereafter impounding some cattle in a herd at Bridmore (Berwick St. John) on the plea that they …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… in the late 19th century by George Taylor, who raised a herd of shorthorn cattle there which acquired a wide … qualities. After his death in 1912 the sale of the herd attracted buyers from all over the country. 78 Another …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and another had 72, in 1687 a third had 46, and in 1688 a herd of 8 cows produced 2 cwt. of raw milk cheese and 2 cwt. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 18
… buildings: in the 1860s wheat was grown on it and a dairy herd was kept. 2 In the later 19th century and earlier 20th … farm was a compact farm of 702 a. in 1816, 8 and a dairy herd of 30 cows was kept on it in 1826; 9 by 1842 land had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to 92, and draught animals from 11 to 16. In 1208 the pig herd, augmented from the Winchester manors at Adderbury and … during the 13th century: in 1248 the inherited cattle herd was about 100 and in 1254 about 120, and sheep flocks of … initially 500 sheep produced some 140 lambs, and the pig herd reached 90. 26 Throughout the 13th century geese were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… chief sites were the farmhouse later called Dutton's, the Herd of Swine (later the Lord Kitchener) inn, and a farmstead … claimed in 1574 that he stocked the park with only a small herd of cows and a few fattening sheep, 157 though in 1591 a … first decade of the 20th century; 181 earlier it was the Herd of Swine. 182 In the 18th century, known familiarly as …
Cuxham
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… milk also went by rail to London. 5 The Nixeys' dairy herd comprised c.70 cows in 1973, and Frank's daughter … still ran the village post office) had a smaller dairy herd, 7 but from 1966 the Nixeys were the only farmers based …