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A History of the County of Oxford
… of the hitching of beans and peas and half the hay in the hitch indicates a development, common in north Oxfordshire, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a quarter was fallow, or used, if so desired, as a pease 'hitch'. Cotmanside had one quarter sowed with wheat and another with barley; the rest was either fallow or 'hitch'. Thus, by this system one quarter of the land normally …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Lammas; livestock was counted twice a year; a new horse hitch was chosen each year at a special vestry meeting. 249 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… road and west of the village other arable was in smaller 'hitch' fields. All the arable was in strips of c. a. and all … early 18th century there were three hill fields and three 'hitch' fields after Upper and Lower West field were merged and one of the 'hitch' fields was divided. 457 From 1797, when it was agreed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… system was modified in some years by the introduction of a hitch field, apparently about half the area of the fallow … 134 Whitehill was divided into two fields in 1279; 135 a hitch field was introduced in the 16th century, 136 and by … also grown. 162 Peas, beans, and vetches were grown in the hitch field from 1582 or earlier. 163 Sainfoin was being …
A History of the County of Oxford
… hide-land, and 1 sheep for every land and ley in the new hitch. 110 The letting of sheep commons was strictly … a bell and of tenants who allowed sheep to graze in the hitch. 113 The grazing of horses within the fields after … Tadmarton later changed to a 4-course rotation. A pease hitch was added by 1615 when it was decided that all tenants …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… (York, 1662), the gift of Sarah widow of the Rev. Robert Hitch, Dean of York, 1680, with an impaled coat of arms, and …