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A History of the County of Essex
… 35 a. of pasture and only 23 a. of arable. 1 There was a fishery in 1086, 2 and fishing in the Stour by boat was … c. 1240. 3 Worm- ingford Hall manor had a separate fishery in 1435, perhaps the fishery in the Mere mentioned in 1742. 4 There was a mill in …
A History of the County of Essex
… which incorporate the old service building. Oak panel- ling and other decorative features were also introduced. By …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… tower of more ancient date, now in ruins. On Wortham Ling are some remains of a Roman camp. Worthen (All Saints) … daily: the market-place is a neat quadrangular erection. A fishery for mackerel in the spring and herrings in the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… with fish 34 and in 1773 there was said to be a 'great fishery' at Worthing. 35 In the 1790s mackerel were caught in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… as "the king's demesne, and having seventy burgesses." Its fishery at an early period attracting many residents, a … of trade by which the town is supported is the herring-fishery, which is usually productive to a remarkable extent. … a defined distance, from foreign countries. The mackerel-fishery is also extensive. The situation of Yarmouth, in a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… each other. In all these, numerous boats equip for the ling and herring fisheries, which are carried on to a great … principal occupation, and are partly engaged in taking ling, tusk, and cod. The profits of these three sorts, though …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… never without danger: these are invariably overgrown with ling, in some parts mixed with bent and rushes. Near the old … "brackens"), thistles, and coarse grass, with but little ling; but wherever ling is the chief produce, the soil is … from Lancashire. Hull and Whitby share in the Greenland fishery; and their imports of timber, deals, hemp, flax, &c., …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… his wife Land, the moiety of other lands and a certain fishery in the water of the Ouse &c., in Turnamhall in Clyff …