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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Durobrivae shows twelve iron-working sites within the wood and two more to the N. (E. T. Artis, Durobrivae (1828), pl. I). The N. part of the wood where eight of the sites are shown, has been cleared and quarried. The remainder of the wood is dotted with many pits and hollows; some are recent …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 18 p., of which 793 acres are arable, 81 pasture, and 42 wood; the soil is strong and rather wet, but the lands …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the later Middle Ages the Hastings family acquired Boys wood ( c. 72 a.) on the northern edge of the parish, and it … 109 a. of meadow, 4 a. of 'old leys', and 75½ a. of wood and coppice, a total of 407 a.; 51 Boys wood and the Lawns, c. 29 a. of pasture acquired with the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parish, was bounded on the north and north-east by Boys wood and Home wood on a line which in 958 seems to have marked the limits … of the early parish ran from the southern tip of Home wood probably down the shallow declivity west of Westfield …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Lew and Cote 94 held land freely at Yelford from three lords. In 1279 Robert of Yelford, also called the forester, … 1328 Robert died holding the same Yelford estate of three lords. 98 His son Robert, prominent in the service of the … and Philip Walwyn were acting jointly over rent from Boys wood in Standlake, 2 and the bulk of the Yelford family's …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… the only window retaining its old transomed and mullioned wood frame; both door-ways on the side fronts are now … finials. Between the walls above the bottom step is a flat wood arch, semi-circular in shape and supported on moulded …