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A History of the County of Somerset
… buying machinery but with only 3 a. of arable had to buy grain for his cattle. His wife kept 180 poultry. 12 Farms and … a house, offerings, small tithes, 1½ a. of meadow, grain tithes from 24 bond tenants of Philip de Columbers and … in 1535 25 and in 1571 and 1636 the vicar claimed half the grain tithe of the parish, presumably on the basis of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… being well adapted to the production of every kind of grain, the agriculture of the county is less subject to any …
History Theses 1901-1970
… Helen Gintz. London Ph.D. 1954. The developments of the grain trade in the 20th century, and their influence on the …
A History of the County of Essex
… in the mid 15th century, and Wormingford Hall manor had grain and fulling mills in 1480. 9 The watermill recorded in …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 1821 a partnership was formed to mill, bake, and deal in grain, and a four-storeyed brick steam mill was built in 1818 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… arable; the soil is a loam, producing excellent crops of grain. Here is a station of the Brighton and Portsmouth …
A History of the County of Somerset
… a minority, the demesne farm was almost entirely producing grain. Apart from some inclosed pasture it comprised 488 a. … on the manor. The seed amounted to about a third of the grain produced in the previous year; another third, mainly of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were both important, and, except for small amounts of grain used to feed workers and make payments in kind, the … Yarnton's farmers from the worst effects of falling grain prices. In 1890 arable was 'kept under the plough …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of the island, and scattered over the surface. The chief grain cultivated is bear and oats, the average annual value … is Haddington, which is the greatest market for grain in this part of the country. Fairs are held annually at …