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A History of the County of Somerset
… lower ground is composed of Midford Sands and the higher land of Inferior Oolite limestone, but in the east there are … HISTORY In 1086 Yarlington was assessed at 7 hides and had land for 7 ploughteams, but only 3 teams were recorded of … inclosed out of the common fields with 17 a. uninclosed. Land in the east field was let in 1711 and in the west and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 133-4; e 12, ff. 87v.-97v. O.R.O., tithe award. Vicarage land of 8 a. there recorded seems to have been Thomas's own: …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to be only 44, 17 presumably because of the loss of arable land by inclosure in the 15th and 16th centuries. 18 By the later 13th century land perhaps lay in two fields; in 1272 and 1304 there were … 21 By the 1520s the inclosed former demesne and tenant land was leased as three farms, one of them the manor farm, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… beyond Spring Hill. North and west of the village the land is Oxford clay, interspersed with terraces of river … Much of the village stands on gravel, while the lower land is river alluvium. 52 Yarnton's medieval arable lay … quarter of the parish. 17 From c. 1850, when the land was farmed from Begbroke Hill, Parker's Farm was used …
A History of the County of Oxford
… that persisted into the 19th century; church, poor, surveyors', and constables' rates were all so assessed. 22 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Godwin's, to his newly founded abbey at Eynsham. 63 The land was taken at the Conquest by Remigius, bishop of … sold in 1965. In 1895 the college bought Hill farm, whose land adjoined Jackson's farm, from Sir George Dashwood. … Manor. O.R.O., Dash, XV/ii/3-8; ibid. tithe award. Ibid. land tax assess.; P.O. Dir. Oxon. (1847 and later ends.). …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… is about a mile and a half in circuit, by a narrow neck of land, or sandbank, thrown up by opposite currents of two … though scarcely a shrub is now to be seen. The arable land is chiefly near the shore; but it is very inconsiderable … west, separated from the former only by a narrow tract of land offering every facility, by the construction of a canal, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… it did not extend across the Yarwell-Wansford road. This land, recently cleared of trees, was formerly part of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… secondary; hence, in 1778 it included the only freehold land in the village. The majority of three-room buildings of … house of more than average status built on Westmorland land was the mill house (27). The village has always been …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… where it leaves the parish at c. 160 m. The highest land is on the parish boundary, 210 m. where there is a ridge … Hill. 30 Flat and well drained, nearly all Yatesbury's land is suitable for ploughing. Large areas of open field lay … were called sleights in the earlier 19th century and the land adjoined downland in Compton Bassett. There was little …