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A History of the County of Oxford
… parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the sharing of lot meadows along the Thames, may indicate that the parishes once … between the village and the river was meadowland. Some meadows were evidently arable in the Middle Ages; they were … retained traces of ridge and furrow in the 1960s. 28 Lot meadows flanking the river were never ploughed or inclosed, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… greatest. Seasonal flooding, while beneficial to the river meadows, sometimes caused inconvenience as high as the … riots' which traditionally concluded the mowing of the lot meadows. 54 'The beginning of disorder' was a race run for a … outsiders, and it ceased to be a festival. 56 The meadows increasingly attracted the interest of botanists, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… century and certainly before 1648 some common pastures and meadows were inclosed. 71 North leaze had been inclosed by … pasture in the south corner of the parish, 259 a. of meadows and pasture. 5 In 1910 Yatesbury House farm measured …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Aston between Michaelmas and Martinmas, probably in the meadows along Shifford brook. 30 No early woodland was … a. of meadow and pasture closes, 19 a. in Brighthampton's meadows, and c. 107 a. of open-field arable distributed as …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Moorlands, however, remarkable attention is paid to the meadows. The extent of natural meadow, namely, such as … and again at Cottingwith, it contains low tracts of marshy meadows, occasionally overflowed by that river, and producing …