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A History of the County of Oxford
… was renowned for its consumption of venison, fowls, beef, and tobacco. 302 Other prominent master tradesmen or … 'the whole of the poor' were treated to a dinner of roast beef, plum pudding, and beer, followed by toasts, addresses …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Second World Wars and ceased by 1950; cattle were kept for beef rather than dairying; while on the remaining arable, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1945 some dairy herds were replaced by cattle reared for beef. 2 From 1972 most of Wootton Rivers's land has been …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to provide its inmates with bread, cheese, and beer, and beef or mutton at least once a week. In 1803 £544 18 s. 6 d. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Wheat remained the chief crop and stock kept were 133 beef cattle, 759 pigs, 278 sheep and lambs, and 165 poultry, … Drove Lane farm (250 a.) fattened continental breeds of beef cattle on 39 a. of permanent grassland, while some land …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and in the 1940s and 1950s it was used to rear cattle for beef. 8 Both Yatesbury House farm and Yatesbury Manor farm …