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A History of the County of Northampton
… barley and beans. There are considerable stretches of woodland on the higher land. In the north-east angle of the … Westminster, 1 which in 1086 held 3 hides with a mill and woodland 7 furlongs in length and 6 in breadth. 2 By the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Hill, Brumcombe and Yatscombe, there is a good deal of woodland. The name 'Pinnegrave' or 'Pinsgrove' is constantly …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… north-west of the village, the clay to the north supports woodland, and the alluvium gave the parish much meadow land. … increase to 526 in 1841 because labourers building the G.W.R. line from London to Bristol lodged in the village. 17 … Surveyor, 19712 (Wilts. co. council), 3. Q. Sess. 1736 (W.R.S. xi), p. 32. V.C.H. Wilts. iv. 271. Andrews and Dury, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the bottom of the line of hills. Although there is little woodland there are several coppices, and the post-inclosure … The 'George and Dragon', of which the gable is dated 'W.R.M. 1700', is still in use. Epwell lies in the north-west … furze, and greensward lying dispersed in the fields. 420 Woodland played a comparatively small though valuable part in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was then part of farms based in Sutton Mandeville. 159 Woodland within the manor may have been inclosed and hedged … Wood, 1 a., was part of Lower farm c. 1730. 161 In 1843 woodland covered 59 a. in the north part of Swallowcliffe, of … the other in the earlier 19th, 219 became prebendaries. T. W. Marshall (d. 1877), curate from 1841, published Notes on …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… higher a long way to the southward, among a large tract of woodland. It contains in the whole 2300 acres of land, of … rises still higher, being covered with a large tract of woodland, the soil of which is a stiff cold clay. These woods … exchange the church of Halstow, in Lincoln diocese, with W. Cres for this church. He was likewise archdeacon of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the south near the Lower Icknield Way. There is little woodland except for Sydenham Hurst ( c. 45 a.) in the north, … near the Chalford boundary to the west of Sydenham Grange. Woodland ( league X 3 furlongs), it may be noted, had been … glass by Bell & Sons of Bristol in memory of the Revd. W. D. Littlejohn (d. 1891). 208 A window in the 'Decorated …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Sywell parish covers about 2,170 acres, largely grass and woodland. Two small streams flow through the parish, one of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by a ford before 1591. 13 The ford remained in 1981. The G.W.R. line from Oxford to Banbury was built through the parish … suggest that they originated as settlements in or near woodland. 18 Tackley, whose church contains Anglo-Saxon work, … and elsewhere. Much of the northern part of Tackley was woodland in 1981, but only a small part of that was old, the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… west boundary perhaps represents a track through ancient woodland. The soil lies upon gault, overlaid in the north … south-eastwards to 30 metres by the river. Little woodland was recorded in 1086, but one manor included a 40-a. … were c. 160 churchgoers, drawn from the labourers. 273 H. W. P. Stevens, vicar 18891940, 274 diligently managed and …