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A History of the County of Essex
… for military purposes and a hutted camp was built in the fields to the north-west. After the war the house was …
A History of the County of Essex
… of his blind brother Sir Robert and his sisters Ann Burton and Martha Petty, with successive remainders to Howe … in 1768 but the trust continued until 1799 when Michael Burton, son of Ann, sold his interest in Chigwell to Michael, … son William Harvey. 85 The lease described the property as fields, barns, &c., containing 21 acres. After the 16th …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… settlement which seems to have had its own mediaeval open fields; although not recorded until the middle of the 14th … (21) Cultivation Remains. Little is known of the open fields of Child Okeford. Names on the Tithe Map of 1840 suggest former North and South Fields; enclosure probably went on over a long period of time …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… S.E. of Monument (2). Curved field boundaries suggest that fields were formed by enclosing open-field furlongs or blocks …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Childerley was until then predominantly arable. About 1250 fields towards Boxworth and Dry Drayton were recorded, … and only 300 a. of grass, the high ridges of the old open fields were steadily being ploughed down, and c. 600 a. of … with P.R.O., C 137/85, no. 16, some subdivisions of fields. Bodl. MS. Rawl. B. 278, f. 129. P.R.O., CP …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… also differed agriculturally. In the Bourne valley open fields covered most of the area outside the village closes. … On the eastern uplands only the western parts lay in open fields, while to the east lay extensive ancient inclosures, … larger settlements, with the churches, lay near where the fields and closes met. Most of the settlements in the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… flat. There was much meadow land, and there were open fields in all parts of the parish. The clay favours woodland … century. 18 Soley. In the Middle Ages, when it had open fields, 19 Soley may have been a small nucleated settlement. … small farmsteads in the Middle Ages, when it had open fields. From the 16th century there is unlikely to have been …