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A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds
… lym, with common of pasture for all beasts and estover of peat and gorse ( blest' et javonibus) in all his land and … all his lawn ( landam) in the same Retyr and estover of peat ( et totum estowarium suum de blesturis meis ubicunque …
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds
… of Axebrugge and in Compton, a. land in 'Prayfeld,' and a peat-hag ( morehaia) in the borough of Axebrugge, for their … Gote Acur in the parish of Compton, and an orchard and two peat-hags (morehays) in the borough of Axbrugge; rent for the …
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds
… de Englefeud, of her third part of a pasture called 'peat moor' ( bleta mora), paying 4 d. a year during the … a pasture called 'la Friht' of Sulham, and a corner of peat moor ( bleta mora); also the said Sarah grants that the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… admixtures of sandy loams, rounded pebbles, gravel, and peat, more particularly adapted for the culture of barley, … consist, are generally covered with a thin coat of light peat, having a substratum of till or of shale, and overrun … mountains abound with a considerable depth of excellent peat for fuel, which is so closegrained that if cut with a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on the hill-sides hazel and a red soil, and higher up, peat-moss, and good herbage. At Cowgill Head and at Cross are …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… in the latter of which a considerable quantity of peat is obtained; the portion of arable and meadow land is … inclosed by act of parliament in 1811. A great quantity of peat is brought up the river Maw from an extensive turbary …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… forms. The Soils consist of clay, loam, sand, and peat, irregularly intermixed: the southern part, which has … district, has mostly a red loam on various subsoils; peat-mosses abound on the elevated tracts in the northern …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… on till or some retentive subsoil, or consists of beds of peat, in which are found many fragments of trees, and from …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… fined. 40 Licences were required to dig clay and cut peat or turves. 41 Even the birds and the bees were …