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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Of these, the ash and elm seem to thrive best; and the beech and the plane also answer well. Among the various … the most part, of Scotch fir, with sprinklings of larch, beech, and other trees, is generally in a thriving condition; …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… there are about 350 acres, contain some fine specimens of beech, oak, and other timber. The living is a rectory, valued …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in a retired part of the forest, consisting entirely of beech-trees, on the edge of a common within half a mile of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of which 2000 are chiefly arable, 750 woodland, chiefly beech, and 250 waste land. The soil is principally chalk, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Frome and its tributaries, in many places masked by thick beech woods, provide the most characteristic feature of the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of labour; the stick industry exploited the local beech woods 10 which also gave a livelihood to a number of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… together extended to 700 a., had once been covered with beech wood. 23 The 4 large commons and various small parcels … early 17th century, 31 and 65 a. of woodland, including Beech wood, belonged to the Bidfield manor estate in 1753. 32 … The whole 280 a. mentioned in 1575 were entirely set with beech, with the exception of Siccaridge wood which also had …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in the parish in 1572: Wall field, Nether field adjoining Beech brook, and Down field 13 lying south of Nottswood Hill. … Stoney Dole field - which lay between the village and Beech brook and was presumably the former Nether field - …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… ground of Blaisdon and Flaxley, and by its tributary the Beech brook 5 to the south-east. About a third of the parish …
A History of the County of Oxford
… but he introduced coloured foliage, particularly copper beech, and in general created a more densely wooded scene … the large-scale destruction of trees by Dutch Elm and Beech Bark disease in the 1970s a long-term plan was devised …