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Old and New London
… in military exercises." The butts were a large mound of turf, and at them the volunteers used to shoot. They were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… very extensive drainage of Wildmore, and the East and West Fens. Westward WESTWARD, a parish, in the union of Wigton, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… at Placelease, south of Westonzoyland village, pasture and turf on Sowy moor and Sedgemoor, and were allowed to take …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… lying around the 11th-century village was surrounded by a turf bank, continued by a stream called Wilgesic flowing … Wheldrake: Aspects, 41. J. Fairfax-Blakeborough, Northern Turf Hist. i. 98- 101. E.R.R.O., QDT/2/15. Baines, Hist. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… waste, and 52 common land allotted to the poor for cutting turf; the surface is undulated, and the scenery in many parts …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… formerly a doctor but lately took to the pursuit of the turf and almost as a necessary consequence, gambling. Which …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Trust as an example of traditional fen landscape. Wicken's fens have yielded scattered traces of prehistoric activity, … Camb. Ind. Press, 2 June 1961; A. Day, Wicken, 20; idem, Turf Village: Peat Diggers at Wicken (1985), 15. 86 C.R.O., … 74-5. Cutting, 22 Sept. 1956, in Cambs. Colln; cf. A. Day, Turf Village, 41-5; idem. Wicken, 57. Camb. News, 9 Oct. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from the 1660s, two lots, c. 1½ a., in Sedge and Edmunds fens, and 1½ a. of Lammas land in Fodder fen. Its grazing was … a. at the west end of Edmunds fen were reserved to provide turf for the poor. In the 18th century they were each allowed … 24 By the 1830s, when the poor still by custom dug turf there for firing, the peat had been almost worked out, …