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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the Wisk, and comprises by computation 1120 acres of land, divided among several proprietors, some of whom have … about 1101, and appropriated to the prior and monks of the Holy Trinity at Norwich, who had a cell here: he built only … coal, among the inmates. Besides the cell belonging to the Holy Trinity at Norwich, and the hospital of St. Mary, there …
A History of the County of Sussex
… After the demolition of Yapton Place in the 1830s 11 the land was returned to agriculture 12 except for a small area … the southern half of the parish. 14 The best agricultural land in the parish, however, lies around the village. 15 … the place name is apparently hamm, alluding to low-lying land beside the Ryebank rife. 30 Buildings in the hamlet …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… visible on the ground or on air photographs except on the land N.E. of the village, sloping down to the R. Tove, where …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Bedfordshire which forms its S.E. side. It consists of land sloping generally N. between 110 m. and 66 m. above OD, … Hey Field and most of March Field, and over most of the land described as scrub and pasture in 1760, indicating earlier cultivation of land later returned to the waste. Around the village it is …
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
… 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, …