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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 18 The vicar received £1 a year in 1254, 19 £6 13 s. 4 d. in 1291, 20 and £12 16 s. 4½ d. in 1535. 21 The impropriators kept half the small … Before inclosure the glebe amounted to only 2 a. of open-field arable. Tithes and glebe together produced £20 in 1706 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Until inclosure c. 1816 open-field arable occupied the centre of the parish, between heath … 99 Each manor had a home farm in 1086. 1 Ditton Camoys's had only two ploughteams but expanded by the later 13th … Derisley stud until 1970) on the east. 70 Further south, Edgar Cooper Bland (d. 1984) founded a stud at Rutland farm …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 700 hectares (Fig. 28). It is bounded on both the N. and S. by E.-flowing tributaries of the R. Tove at about 115 m. … once the main street, which crosses the area from S.W. to N.E. ('a'-'b' on plan). It is visible S. of the … the site of the village (SP 635492) where within a single field several interesting features are preserved in pasture. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… includes buildings on each side of the road at Druid's Lodge, in the extreme north-west of the parish. In 1951 the … a 'chapel' and may have been the site of the former bishop's residence, pulled down in the early 16th century. 13 Avon … erected in 1913 from older stones. 21 There is a football field immediately north of the school. Buses run frequently …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… between the R. Nene and Cranford Brook, on land rising S.W. from 100 ft. to 280 ft. above OD. The higher S.W. part is on Boulder Clay, but along the valley sides … within an unploughed strip within the common Three Hills Field. b(2) Barrow (SP 96109603), the northern of the Three …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… on a high N.-facing spur, and Hinton stands immediately S.W. of it on the opposite side of the river on lower ground. Further S.W., also W. of the Cherwell, is West Farndon (2). Although … this is an original feature. To the S. of this ditch, in a field ploughed and returned to grass, are the slight remains …
A History of the County of Essex
… paid a money rent 8 and sent one man to work in the lord's meadow at hay-time and two or three men to the boon works, … demesne included 5 parcels containing 5 a. in the common field. 12 The tithe map shows strips only in the common … that the water pent up for Sir Bernard Whetstone's mill flooded the highway. 24 By 1635 the mill had been …
A History of the County of Essex
… committee bought the freehold of the premises. 15 St. Paul's Church of England school, Woodford Bridge, was opened in … was opened in 1913 for boys from the local Dr. Barnardo's Home. In 1946 the boys were transferred to other Woodford … first part of a new boys school was opened on the playing-field. The girls school took over the whole of the original …
A History of the County of Essex
… portion of the village towards the river. The rector's glebe was also at this end of Woodford. The church and … building there until it, in turn, was replaced by Bancroft's school in 1889. 33 After the break-up of the Wanstead House … of 30 a. is north of Snakes Lane, and Old Mill playing field (26 a.) and Nightingale recreation ground (40 a.) …
A History of the County of Essex
… by which Edward the Confessor confirmed Harold's grant of lands to the canons of Waltham Holy Cross. 1 The … cynges hcce. If the last was Chingford Hatch, the alderman's hatch must have been in the south-west corner of Woodford; … manor-house was probably at Woodford Bridge, where the field name Eldbury, mentioned above, survived until the 16th …