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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 … in the parish but what was formerly believed to be a British camp on God's Hill is part of a series of medieval … 8 cottars. The demesne had 10 a. of meadow and a flock of 66 sheep. The value of both estates had been reduced from £9 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on four hearths in 1662. 65 It was in disrepair in 1685. 66 and 'very ruinous' in 1730. William Bowdery, then … from a builder's yard and two were sold in 1914 to the British Museum and to the Victoria and Albert Museum … 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 … custom into modern times. Oxey, or Oxhurst, mead (66 a.) and West mead (75 a.) lie along the north bank of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by parliamentary grants, endowments, and subscriptions. 66 In 1910 a new wing was added. 67 In 1932 the school was …
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 … its south-west corner was usually under water in winter. 66 From the west end of the village a hollow way known as … that the site was occupied from the Iron Age to Romano-British times. Despite some fragments of medieval pottery in …
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 … 1227 to his brother Richard, earl of Cornwall (d. 1272). 66 Richard's son Edmund granted Yarnton in 1281 to the newly … sold in 1965. In 1895 the college bought Hill farm, whose land adjoined Jackson's farm, from Sir George Dashwood. …
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 … on the banks of the Gifford water, and of which the Cambro-British Ystrad, now softened into Yester, is faithfully … 1 mile (E.) from the village of Carluke; containing 66 inhabitants. This is a small place situated nearly in the …
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 … Yatesbury village was evidently continuous from the Romano-British period, and by the 11th century the site had … and by the trustees to W. Cumber & Son in 1973. 54 The company remained the owner of the whole farm until 2000, when …