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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hills are the remains of a Roman encampment, and in the fields below it, is the site of a Roman villa. The Rev. …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… side of the central valley was once farmed as large open fields, which, together with Chedworth Downs in the north … was that called the port way, 31 running through the open fields by Pinkwell and Longfurlong to form the road junction … were built in the 18th century on inclosures from the open fields. Longfurlong (or Newman's) Farm, a substantial …
A History of the County of Somerset
… an island 28 and the village, with its adjoining arable fields, lies on an 'island' of Burtle marine sands 29 at 7.5 … a T, and thus defined the areas of the three open arable fields. Those fields, east, north, and west, stretched from the village to …
A History of the County of Somerset
… s. 6 d. a year; 16 in 1626 it comprised 32¼ a. in the open fields. 17 It was assessed at 29 a. in 1840 18 and remained …
A History of the County of Somerset
… sheep an acre. 35 Despite constant tillage, the arable fields were worth 30 s. an acre in 1795 and produced high … 38 Some strips around the edges of the three great fields had been inclosed by the earlier 19th century, and by … By the 1880s only the central core of the north and west fields remained uninclosed, although by that date strips had …
A History of the County of Somerset
… mid 17th century the court supervised the use of the open fields and commons and the maintenance of fences, drains, and …
Old and New London
… Chelsea CHAPTER V. CHELSEA. "The sands of Chelsey Fields." Ben Jonson. Boundary of the ParishEtymology of its … "All the grass that Romney yields, Or the sands of Chelsey Fields." Macaulay reminds us that, at the end of the reign of … the house was shut up because of the sickness." Chelsea Fields must have been quite a rustic spot even to a yet later …
Survey of London
… Lyeth the Body of M r IOHN HERGEST of S t Martins in the Fields who Departed this Life the tenth Day of June Anno … Cratford Gentleman of the Parish of S t Giles in the Fields buried here by his own order He dyed November the 8 th … Clayton Milborne Esq re of y e Parish of S t Giles in y e Fields He died Sept 12 1726 t: 47 Haueing Purchased y e …