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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the parish, and perhaps west of the village where fields were called sleights in the earlier 19th century and … of two of the manors in the parish had its own set of open fields and the third probably had. 67 The arable of Yatesbury manor remained in open fields until the mid 19th century. 68 In 1795 Bourne field, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a small manufacture of tape is carried on; and a wire-mill in the township employs about fifty persons. The Peak …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford farm (160 a.), and from another 80 a. in the open fields of Hardwick. 23 In 1708 part of Combe hill in Lew was … £50 rent charge for the tithes of c. 213 a. in Hardwick's fields. 25 A house and yardland held from the lord by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Yelford's medieval open fields probably covered much of the area of the Hastings … Yelford field to the east which formed part of Hardwick's fields until inclosure in 1853. 19 In 1086 Yelford manor had … widespread abandonment of arable. 44 The retention of open fields east of the stream which bisected the parish, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ownership, leaving other holdings to the east in open fields cropped with the fields of Hardwick. That reorganization seems to have been … 62 Evidently the tenants of Yelford's residual open fields, for taxation and other purposes, had become the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… and site of watermill ac(4) Settlement remains, moat and mill site (SP 597758 and 602755; Figs. 152 and 153), formerly … as evidence that a village has been laid out over earlier fields with the closes determined by the curve of the ridges … of the moat. The channel is probably a leat for a water mill which perhaps stood in the disturbed area. Further N.W. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… their habitations. There are four corn-mills, a small wire-mill, and a paper manufactory. The Holywell race-course, long …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… original three-light windows on the upper floor. a(31) Mill House, 660 yards S.S.E. of the church, is modern but … from the old building on another site. a(32) Yetminster Mill, mile S.S.E. of the church; the Millhouse is modern, but the Mill was built in the 17th century, there is a modern …