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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… persisted into the 19th century. The main corn crop was barley, much of it sold outside the neighbourhood for …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the soil rich, producing fine crops of wheat, barley, oats, and turnips. The village, which is large, is …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the yards. Here are a distillery and brewery, a meal and barley mill, and four saw-mills, three of them driven by … and in others less productive; the crops are, wheat, barley, bear, oats, beans, potatoes, and turnips, with the … rotation plan is now prevalent; the chief crops are, oats, barley, turnips, and potatoes. The farms mostly vary from 300 …
A History of the County of Northampton
… on an allarable five-year rotation based on winter wheat, barley and oil seed rape, with spring break crops including … as well as pigs. Mount Mill & Limes End was growing wheat, barley and rape on a six-year rotation, and also had a herd …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 15th and 16th centuries the principal crop may have been barley; c. 1430 the stock on Wicken demesne included 114 qr. of barley, but only 24 qr. of wheat, 27 while c. 1583 Robert Peyton had 126 combs of barley for sale from his manorial farmland. 28 In the 1790s, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Gransden, co. Cambridge, 1597, which he exchanged with Barley 1599, rector of Reed, Herts, 1613, and of Chishull … until his death, 4 Dec., 1621, buried in the chancel of Barley church. See Fasti, i. 229; & Foster's Graduati Cantab. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 6 oxen, and seed comprising 8 qr. of wheat, 16 qr. of barley, 8 qr. of dredge, 6 qr. of oats, and 4 qr. of pulse. … and cereals, and mixed farming was the norm. Wheat and barley were the main crops, but with oats, peas, and, in 1608 … area; another quarter was almost equally divided between barley and oats. Potatoes, increasingly grown in the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the point where it was crossed by Dudden Hill Lane. 73 As Barley bridge it apparently still existed in 1805 but by 1826 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the overseers bought potatoes, herrings, split peas, and barley, and distributed coal and potatoes in 1801 and 1823. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… by 1471; in 1489 Joan and her second husband Thomas Barley had to pay the hitherto lapsed rents and services due … which he paid rent to Neasden prebend. 74 In 1563 Richard Barley sold the estate, consisting of 5 houses, land, and …