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A History of the County of Stafford
… 41 ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agriculture. There was an open field in Longnor in 1500. Town field was mentioned in 1594, and again in 1597 together with what was called the corn field. 42 In the earlier 1630s Sir John Harpur's tenants in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and was for sheep and cattle. 40 A walled enclosure in a field north of Flash school in the late 1870s was probably …
A History of the County of Stafford
… least two open fields in the Middle Ages: the names Smith field and Town field survived in the later 1820s for land respectively … village, probably to prevent cattle wandering into Town field. 4 New field west of the village was created in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… refer to their blazons, listed on p. 346. 'Celtic' Field Groups are described extra-parochially in a separate … Barcombe and Alton, each with its own mediaeval open field system. 1 Ecclesiastical (1) The Parish Church of St. … Roman and Prehistoric Possible Settlement, see 'Celtic' Field Group (42). 'Celtic' Fields, see pp. 325f., Groups …
A History of the County of Oxford
… HISTORY Agriculture Open Fields and Commons Alwoldsbury's field or fields were mentioned in 12467. 1 No later … in the south-west, but a grant in 1351 of 38 a. 'in either field in Bromscott or Alvescot' suggests a shared system by … century, but in the 18th was sometimes counted a separate field. A Middle field was taken from East and West fields …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ditch and another stream; elsewhere they mostly followed field and furlong boundaries. Short straight sections in the … Clay, and its northern part, chiefly pasture and open-field arable, on Cornbrash and Forest Marble. There are … brought little immediate expansion, though the outlying Field, Downs, Lower Ruxhill, and Bazeland Farms were built …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and certainly by the earlier 15th, when they dealt with field management, encroachments, and copyhold conveyancing; …
A History of the County of Warwick
… example of agricultural improvement under the open-field system. 23 The manor court at Alveston as an instrument … and fenced in for corn, and a part of the Black Ground Field was hitched for feeding horses. A part of the heath was … the purpose. The practice of improved husbandry under open-field conditions must have been difficult to enforce. Such …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… on Wyefield Lane, which formerly gave access to an open field of that name, the Lydney rural district council built … demesne. The Davises' estate had the bulk of the open-field land. The other larger estates included 41 a. held by … in their estate. 50 By the mid 16th century 51 the open-field arable was apparently confined to three fields. Wye …