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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Sixpenny Handley 18 SIXPENNY HANDLEY (9917) (O.S. 6 ins., ST 91 NE, ST 91 SE, SU 01 NW) This parish, roughly … and Newtown are 18th and 19th-century encroachments on the woodland. The open fields were finally enclosed in 1797 … with an associated strip of land extending N. into the woodland; to a large extent the boundaries of these strips …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 5462 a. 1 r. 8 p. of land, chiefly the property of Christ's Hospital, Loudon. The Fosse Dyke navigation, connecting the … The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 6. 18. 9.; net income, 31; patron and … of which about 1000 acres are arable, 197 pasture, and 57 woodland; the surface is varied, and one of the tributary …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… still half surrounded by over 800 a. of common heath and woodland. The much larger village of North Duffield, also … belonged to Skipwith manor and was sometimes called Lord's or Hall moor. 13 In part it consists of dry heathland, but … P. Toulson 15 in the early 19th century, but much of the woodland is natural. There are many barrows, known as Danes' …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… a parish, in the county of Aberdeen, 5 miles (E. by S.) from Ellon; containing, with the villages of Collieston … 3450 are arable, 450 meadow and pasture, and about sixty woodland and plantations. The surface, which is of very … with a moderate proportion of meadow and pasture, 400 woodland and plantations, and the remainder moor and waste. …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… 1130 to Richard Basset, who had inherited much of de Buci's Leicestershire lands, and was then assessed as 3 carucates. 12 In 12423 Hugh de Nevill held knight's fee in Slawston from Robert de Tatershall who held from … 4 bordars had 2 ploughs. There were 9 a. of meadow, and woodland one by 2 furlongs in extent. The value had risen …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Flaxwell, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 18 miles (S. S. E.) from Lincoln, and 116 (N. by W.) from London; … 5085 acres, nearly half of which consists of pasture and woodland. Here are quarries of fine blue slate, situated amid … of which 777 acres are arable, 475 meadow and pasture, 968 woodland, and 237 common: the surface is varied. Slindon …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and common of Gumber, leaves the parish. There is much woodland. The village is built chiefly about a ring or loop … century. Several are dated; such as 1707 (with initials S/LS), 1719 (with initials J M), 1728 (the former smithy, … was also restored c. 1921 by the late Mervyn Macartney, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A. Then 'most of the modern interior …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… union of Bellingham, N. W. division of Tindale ward, S. division of the county of Northumberland, 8 miles (W. by … in the parish and union of Rochdale, hundred of Salford, S. division of Lancashire, 2 miles (N. E.) from Rochdale, on … 3219 acres, of which 1828 are arable, 1333 grass, and 58 woodland: the soil is a strong stiff clay. The surface is …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of 1725 she nominated John Williams, curate of St. Martin's, Birmingham, as the first minister. Robert Boyse, who was … to at least three of the trustees, was to be Williams's successor or the first minister if Williams declined the … Thomas Bradburne should be offered the curacy after Boyse's death or resignation, but in fact he never held it. 20 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… were inclosed pastures. 32 Common rights in the wastes and woodland of Smethwick seem to have survived the abandonment … thirty and forty years earlier Lord Dudley, on Lyddyat's petition 'and upon the suit of the freeholders of … vegetable garden. 50 Smethwick once had several tracts of woodland, consisting mainly of oaks, birches, and beeches. 51 …