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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… eight yards in breadth, built on the very edge of the hill, with an entrance on the south; within this is another … There are several smaller circles on other parts of the hill, with vestiges of a grove of oaks, strongly indicating … remarkable hills, from the summit of one of which, Newton Hill, the English and Bristol Channels can be discerned. The …
A Dictionary of London
… and P.H. VIII. XIX. (t), p.86). On the east side of Peter Hill (S. 369). York House Wheatley says Baynard's Castle was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… corn and from 3 a. and another piece of land in Yelford field were payable to Bampton parish in the Middle Ages. 22 … in the open fields of Hardwick. 23 In 1708 part of Combe hill in Lew was said to be tithable to Yelford, but no later …
A History of the County of Oxford
… inclosed estate depicted in 1625, 18 together with Yelford field to the east which formed part of Hardwick's fields … poor-relief in 1708 presumably excluded much of the open-field land, certainly the college estate, which by then was … that half the land then lay fallow. 27 Change to a three-field rotation of crops before the mid 17th century may be …
A History of the County of Oxford
… taxed only for his inclosed estate, acquired some open-field land with the Walwyn family's Yelford estate in the mid … the higher ground in the north of the parish at Rickless Hill (87 m.) and near Home wood ( c. 90 m.), and Oxford clay the hill slopes. 80 The problem of flooding, not entirely solved …
A History of the County of Oxford
… called East Yelford, 90 namely the holdings, mostly open-field, east of the Hastings estate. 91 In the 1840s, and … in later parochial arrangements, tenants of the open-field land being taxed with Hardwick and in the care of its …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… house is now let to a weaver for 3. 10. per annum, and the field for 1. 5. The residue of the 156 was lent on mortgage, … with the Established Church. Upon the summit of a gravelly hill near the village are some remains of the ancient castle … commanding site to the north of the chapel; and on another hill, designated Tommen Vilwyn, is a cairn of tolerable size. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… The walls are of local rubble with dressings of Ham Hill and other local stone and the roofs are lead-covered. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… solemnized at York, in 1327. After the battle of Halidown Hill, in 1333, Edward retired to York, where he held a … and commodious, and include arrangements for three field-officers, five captains, nine subalterns, and 240 … the smaller valleys of the Western Moorlands, and at Pen-hill, between this and Wensleydale, a kind of Flagstone, used …