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Register of the Freemen of the City of York
A History of the County of Oxford
… varying soils. As the county is almost fifty miles long, and contains close on 480,000 acres of land, it is not … grown in Oxfordshire, and is preferred by brewers and maltsters to any other. Arthur Young, in 1813, estimated the … per acre, and 1 cwt. of nitrate; if a good sample of malting barley is required the nitrate of soda will be …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was the Cheese Country devoted to cheese dairy farming and grazing. To the extreme south-west lay a small part of the Butter Country, and in the extreme south-east there were fragments of a … Wiltshire formed the centre of a great region of sheep-and-corn husbandry. In the extreme north-west there was a …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… pure white variety of the latter used for vases, ornaments and busts. It appears also to have been used for other … since this practice was prohibited in 1711 [Acts (1711)], and again two years later [Acts (1731)]. The repetition … Houghton found that alabaster along with white rock MARBLE and lime calcinated flints were used to help the fermentation …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Albourne Place farm, it included the former Albourne park and comprised 400 a., 66 and in 1787, when it had 260 a., it was leased for 21 years. 67 In the 1820s and 1830s the farm was in hand. 68 There was presumably a …
A History of the County of Essex
… was cultivated by 4 servi with 2 ploughs in both 1066 and 1086, and the only recorded livestock in 1086 were 6 cattle and 1 horse; there was wood for 12 swine, and 3 a. of meadow. …
A History of the County of Essex
… the road from Marks Tey on a small part of the south-west, and by field boundaries on most of the remain- ing sides; in the north-west, south-west, and south-east, however, the parish boundary ran across … the south, but only the western half remained in 1876. The malting, used in the 18th and 19th centuries, was attached to …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… parish of Aldsworth lies 6.5 km. south-east of Northleach and 5 km. north-east of Cirencester. In 1976 it covered an area of 1,356 ha. (3,350 a.) 1 and was irregular in shape with the boundaries marked by field boundaries save on the west and part of the south where they followed the river Leach and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… monks' were holding the Derbyshire manors of Doveridge and Marston-upon-Dove from Henry de Ferrers. 3 It is equally … Priory but those of the abbey of St. Pierresur-Dives and that a priory had not yet been founded at Tutbury, the … II. 4 It records the extensive endowment given by Henry and his wife Bertha to the priory, which was dedicated to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This parish, which includes the hamlet of Bures, and contains 1557 a. 2 r. 37 p., was anciently parcel of the … was divided among several proprietors. The soil is rich, and constitutes fine cornland; the scenery is picturesque. A … The living is a recrory, valued in the king's books at 11, and in the gift of the Crown: the tithes have been commuted …