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A History of the County of Sussex
… manor had however been enfranchised by 1891. 26 Wheat, barley, rye, oats, peas, and tares were grown in Washington … good either for arable or pasture. 31 Wheat, rye, barley, and oats were grown at North farm in 1849, together … trefoil, ley farming being practised. 32 In 1874 wheat, barley, oats, turnips, peas, and beans were said to be the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… maslin which supplanted rye in the 1320s on 15 a. Unmixed barley, sown on 40-50 a. c. 1309, gave way to dredge on 55-65 … owing to severe flooding. The triennial rotation of wheat, barley, and a fallow was still in force in the late 18th … of fen oats reported in 1801 with 19 a. of fen wheat and barley. The open fields then produced 194 a. of wheat, 8 a. …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… ploughing for woad and three more for wheat, oats, and barley before the land was laid down again for pasture. 83 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in the later 17th and earlier 18th century were wheat, barley, oats, and peas; smaller amounts of rye, vetches, … accounted for 43 per cent of recorded cereal acreage, barley for 31 per cent, and oats for 26 per cent. Turnips and … 67 46 14 pigs 15 11 19 48 Percentage of wheat 58 47 52 32 barley 34 34 24 66 oats 8 19 23 2 mixed corn & rye 0 0 1 0 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… had been created there. 27 Small farmers grew wheat, barley, beans, peas, clover, and leeks; 28 one cultivated …
A History of the County of Essex
… farm also produced wheat, beans, oats, rye, and barley, and sold the surplus in Barking, Dagenham and London. … grass was double that under crops. The main crops were barley, wheat, and turnips, with about 50 a. each, while … it began to cut the production of vegetables in favour of barley for feeding beef cattle. 195 Samuel Gunary & Sons, who …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… heavy, and well adapted for wheat, with portions of good barley and turnip land; the surface is generally flat, in …
A History of the County of Essex
… by clover, turnips, peas, or beans. 57 Yields of wheat and barley were below average for the county in the 1790s. 58 In 1801 the principal crops were wheat (348½ a.), barley (331½ a.), and oats (214 a.), with smaller amounts of … been replaced by a four course rotation of (1) wheat, (2) barley, (3) clover and beans, and (4) fallow. The fallow …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the late 16th and early 17th centuries, however, wheat and barley were also being grown in the open fields, though in … 71 In the former case the sequence was fallow, wheat, and barley or oats; in the latter it was turnips, barley, clover and rye-grass, and oats or wheat. For turnips …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… and 10 of rye in one course, and 46 acres of oats, 7 of barley, and 2½ acres of peas and beans in the other. 23 A … 1540 shows that at the later date 63½ acres were sown with barley and oats, and 39 with wheat, an increase in the … 83 The chief crops were described in 1870 as wheat, barley, oats, and fruit. 84 In 1866 35 acres were already …