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A History of the County of Shropshire
… there were said to be 38 a. of wood in Wombridge, worth 10 s. an acre. 8 Among the coppices in the later 17th and 18th … 11 Four or five ploughteams belonged to William Charlton's Wombridge tenants in the years 1693-8; most of the parish's … both coal and ironstone were raised from shafts up to 311 yd. deep by a workforce of over 740 in 1922. Those pits …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of … To the west the parish boundary partly follows the Devil's Ditch, a massive linear earthwork built probably by the … after inclosure included a belt 1¼ miles long by 200 yd. wide along the western boundary, created as an extension …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 85 The living was valued at £10 in 1291, including 13 s. 4 d. in tithes from a ploughland at Truleigh in Edburton. … rectory then owned a portion of tithe corn worth 7 s. a year in Shermanbury, 87 and in 1675 the rector received … 96 The building stood south-east of the church c. 150 yd. north of the Henfield-Brighton road. 97 It was replaced …
A History of the County of Oxford
… developed at a gate into the royal park. The town's curving west boundary perhaps represents the line of the … to the original building plots. 94 Quitrents rose from 36 s. 5 d. in 1230 to 43 s. in the 1260s, c. 45 s. in 1279, and … in 1622 were rebuilt in stone and varied in width from 1 yd. near the church to 4 ½ yd. in Market Place; the street …
A History of the County of Essex
… year in 1768 nine persons received amounts ranging from 2 yd. to 7 yd. each. In 1767 a woman was treated at Guys hos- … the workhouse. In 1776 the workhouse master was paid 20 s. a week for 13 inmates from which he was to provide food, … who went out to work. From 1778 he agreed to pay doctor's fees, except for smallpox and fractures. Numbers in the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… south-west of Cockshutt Piece and north-east of Ball's coppice. In the earlier 19th century there was some … district council. In 1650 there were 12 cottagers at Pain's Lane on Watling Street. In 1836 the place was said to have … inclined plane on the Shropshire Canal rose 122 ft. in 320 yd. from the junction to a summit level on Cockshutt Piece. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Yew Yard [y'rd; yrd; yerde; yerd; yer; yearde; yeard; y'd; yd; yarde; eard] A term with several meanings, the most … Dictionary Archive, often in abbreviated forms such as 'yd'. Although not noted in the Dictionary Archive, the much … of wider textiles. It is noticeable from the Dictionary's Archive that broader fabrics become more common during the …