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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… glass, and the oak carving highly finished. About a furlong to the west of the village are nine of those cavities … The parish comprises 6507 acres, of which 104 are common or waste, and 750 in wood. It lies to the south of the London … The bishops of Durham formerly appointed foresters or keepers of their woods of Benfieldside, and elsewhere, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a green-glazed zoomorphic finial, possibly a hound or ox, and fragments of a glass flask with applied rib … The interior is level with no trace of former walls or buildings. There is no indication of an entrance but one … apparently of these fields, can be seen on the ground, or traced on air photographs, around the two villages of …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… Turner's Court, and a sliver of common pasture at Harcourt or Hartocke Hill, confirmed as belonging to Benson in 1594. … 11 rotation must always have been complex. A few field and furlong names reflected the arable's varying quality, as with … substantially reduced partly for quarrying. 18 Woodlands furlong in Berrick Hill field may recall additional medieval …
Berrick Salome
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… of Berrick Salome occupies gently rising ground a mile or so north of Benson, its clunch-rubble and timber-framed … Berrick. Occasionally the village was also called Nether or Lower Berrick, and in 1360 Berrick by Dorchester. 5 PARISH … 2 a. of pasture, and woodland measuring 2 furlongs by 1 furlong. 9 The latter was perhaps recalled in the later …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… but for most of its length the boundary follows no natural or prominent man-made feature. On the north the western part … by coach; it was not marked on maps of 1728, 1773, or later. Another north-south road crossed Berwick Bassett … the Old Farmhouse and the Manor, and several small houses or cottages. The Old Farmhouse was the house probably on the …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… The kennels are said to have been either demolished or converted into cottages, new kennels being built … St. John of Woodford (Northants.). 42 Their son Andrew or St. Andrew succeeded to the manor before 1663. 43 He died … manor is mentioned in the award. 47 Nicholas Simons died or disappeared from the parish in 1780, but his widow …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… have been made in the parish. These include: A middle or late Acheulean handaxe found in 1955 in Great Billing … Ridge-and-furrow of these fields exists on the ground or can be traced on air photographs over much of the present parish, arranged in end-on or interlocked furlongs carefully adapted to the broken …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the R. Nene. The subsoil is chiefly of Northampton Sands or Upper Lias Clay with some alluvium along the sides of the … of an auroch (?) and rib bones of a smaller animal or an immature auroch were discovered at 3 m. below the … is said to appear on an aerial photograph not seen by NDC or RCHM, taken in 1970 ( BNFAS 5 (1971), 42; NDC A30). a(4) …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… wall are two carved stones, perhaps corbels, of the 14th or 15th century. One depicts a standing figure with sword and … section, with interesting exceptions in Coombe Bottom furlong, and their ends are ramped, 'drawnout' or … Poyntz, 1794, and of Bincombe, 1827, in D.C.R.O., show furlong names ( see plan p. 24).) (a) Strip lynchets of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Between the arches are rubble piers; on the upstream or W. side these have cut-waters with ashlar facing, probably … now blocked. Monuments (915) The following late 18th or early 19th-century farmhouses and cottages are built of rubble in two storeys, or in one storey with dormer-windowed attics. Most have …