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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Outwell and Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride the Well Stream. Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… differently constituted, with narrow frontages to the Bank and long extensions into the fen. Since, moreover, Thorney is on peat and not on silt fen, the orchards and market gardens which … of 'a wealthy landowner understanding the economics of agriculture, a farmer master of its practice, a village not …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at … the Second World War the park was largely turned over to agriculture. 24 The Roman road between Barcombe and Hardham, … was held at Steyning. 92 In 1977 the predominant type of agriculture was dairying, with some cereals. 93 A windmill …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… lies for the most part on the southern side of the Sence, and the river and its tributaries form the parish boundary on the north and east. The land rises from about 300 ft. in the valley to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the county of Cornwall, 5 miles (W. by S.) from … The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 10, and in the gift of Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart.: the tithes have … Pure limestone is burnt for purposes of building and agriculture, and inferior limestone is quarried for the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… FOR THE POOR Almshouses The Church Green Almshouse and Town Feoffees By 1613 the borough owned an almshouse and garden on the site of Nos. 2838 Church Green north of the … in which 'the poor of the borough are placed'; when and how it was acquired is not known. By the 1760s it had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: agriculture AGRICULTURE After the creation of the town Witney manor, … predominantly agricultural, with profits from rents and farming forming the bulk of the lord's income: in 1552 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or Farm Mill near the 12th-century manorial precinct, and of Woodford or Witney Mill at the town's northern end, at … 1 Outlying mills at Hailey (near modern New Mill) and at Crawley were added probably in the late 12th or early … in several new or expanded mills both for corn-milling and for fulling; an unspecified new mill at Witney was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing specialization in blankets and other broadcloths. 1 Thenceforth until the 20th century … fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it retained the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: markets and fairs MARKETS AND FAIRS Witney had a weekly market and two annual fairs from the early 13th century, though …