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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 … It is intersected by different branches of the Medway, and upon two of the larger streams stands the village, approached … passes through it, and the Grand Junction canal runs upon its borders. Lace-making employs some of the …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1688-9, M.A. 1692, B. and D.D. 1708; rector of Charlton-upon-Otmoor, Oxon, 1704. See Foster's Index Eccl. Yate, … vice-chancellor 1580; born at Houghton Strother, near the Tyne, Northumberland, and educated as a chorister in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… said to have "deepened the ditch and then thrown the earth upon the banks late in the 18th century." It seems doubtful …
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 … i. 312. Ibid.; S.R.S. xx. 445. The name, also recorded as Tyne barn, is unexplained unless indicating a wooden bldg. in …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… that the fibres had reached; hence phrases like 'upon the bobbins', 'at whitening', or 'upon poles' (that is, hung outside to bleach), 'in the oil', …
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 … to have passed through on his way to Weymouth and remarked upon the new Yarlington Lodge. 8 MANORS The 10 hides at … by his only surviving child Henrietta, duchess of Newcastle (d. 1776 s.p.), and by her nephew Francis Osborne, …
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 … of the tenants are to any appreciable extent dependent upon the price of corn'. 1 Sheep were still kept in the 19th …