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A History of the County of Somerset
… Old park in 1540 79 and thereafter was divided into large fields. 80 Nevertheless, in a lease of an adjoining cottage … on the boundary with Pitcombe. There were two open arable fields; the west field extended from Lodge Hill to the lands … the rector had shared pasture for sheep in the common fields. 83 A lease of 1694 included closes lately inclosed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… may indicate that the parishes once shared a single set of fields. The medieval yardland in Yarnton seems to have … 18 By the later 13th century land perhaps lay in two fields; in 1272 and 1304 there were said to be 160 a. of … had doubled. 48 The stint for common grazing in Yarnton fields in the early 17th century was apparently 10 beasts and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1960s has restored something of the contrast between open fields to the north and thickly hedged closes to the south … for Dorothea Dashwood, widow of Robert. Though Yarnton's fields were inclosed early, 12 each farm's closes tended to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… all over the E. side of the village and in the surrounding fields (local information). Two keys, one iron and the other … Medieval and Later (9) Cultivation remains. The common fields were enclosed by an Act of Parliament of 1777 (map of … arrangements before that date. Ridge-and-furrow of these fields can be traced on air photographs only in the area S. …