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A History of the County of Oxford
… ruins were used as a pound at the annual drives of Port Meadow, and the precinct wall was probably partially rebuilt; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and comprises 4388 acres, of which 2495 are arable, 585 meadow, 507 wood, and the rest common. The surface is hilly … Arun canal passes through the parish. In the village is a mill for dressing leather, which affords employment to forty … flows through the parish, turning in its course several paper, mill-board, and flour mills; and many of the females …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… only regular traffic carried by the canal was flour to the mill at Wrockwardine Wood. 80 A horse-drawn railway was built …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… for tradesmen's horses. 17 Mills. There was an iron mill at Wombridge at the Dissolution, probably near the … least one of the mills was converted from the earlier iron mill. 19 By 1709 there were three mills or wheels at … and they remained in use until at least 1760. 20 A mill lay immediately east of Wombridge church in 1847; it …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… owners of the Shropshire Examiner published the paper weekly in Oakengates from 1876 to 1877 when it merged …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… car. and three vill. one bord, with one car. and and one mill 20s. and one virgat of medow, pasture wood two leu. … was made, with three vill. one bord. There was also a mill 20s. There was in Epreston and Udeburgh of Roger de …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… r. 11 p., of which 1571 acres are arable, 658 pasture and meadow, and 12 woodland. The Hall, now a respectable … comprising 1752 acres of fertile land, principally in meadow and pasture; 396 acres are common or waste. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… In 1297 50 a. of arable and small acreages of pasture and meadow were recorded on the manorial demesne, 9 which was … were mostly small pasture farms, often attached to a mill estate, and in 1838 there were only two farms of over 60 … in the parish. 24 Mills and the Cloth Industry. A mill was recorded at Woodchester in 1086. 25 The cloth …