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The Environs of London
… hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from Whitechapel church. The parish is bounded by Chigwell, Chingford, Walthamstow, Wanstead, and Barking. It contains about 2000 acres of land, of which the greater part is meadow and pasture. A considerable part of the forest of Waltham …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The … is bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to … extending a little over 3 miles from north to south, and from east to west about 2 miles in the north and 1 mile …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… parish, covering 880 hectares, lies between the R. Nene and Cranford Brook, on land rising S.W. from 100 ft. to 280 … but along the valley sides bands of clays, limestones and sands outcrop. Prehistoric and Roman b(1) Enclosures (SP 95617725), N.W. of the village, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 55 SE) Fig. 149 Woodford-Cum-Membris Medieval settlements and estates The parish covers about 1100 hectares and is bisected by the R. Cherwell, here flowing in a narrow … cut into the underlying Middle Lias Clays between 120 m. and 135 m. above OD. On either side of the river the land …
A History of the County of Essex
… the economic life of the village, providing timber and some pasture, while restricting the amount of arable … was densely wooded. 1 Monkhams was originally all wood, and there also pannage was important. 2 Some clearances had … part of his demesne was arable land he had been unable to plough any of it during the previous ten years because of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Beds, about 250 ft. above O.D. Further E. the land falls and the Chalk is soon overlain by Reading Beds and London Clays which give rise to a well-wooded area, at … from 200 ft. to 120 ft., drained by streams flowing S. and S.E. Bagshot Beds in the S.E. of the parish result in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the quitrents 49 and listed them annually with its other rents. Rentals … In the 1750s Sarah Brown bought the freehold of the former Plough to the north, which included the later nos. 30-4 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … called Hensgrove, acquired by the king from the Templars and taken into the park, perhaps when the town was founded. … were usually for fenced areas in front of houses: the Plough inn on the site of nos. 30-32 Oxford Street was …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… at Aluredston. Three demesne servants were employed, and 22 boonworks at haymaking and 102 boonworks at harvest were worked; in addition, … of Striguil. The livestock usually consisted of eight oxen and two other draught animals, and wheat, barley, peas, and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from east to west. Its northern and eastern … and c. 1811 John Magor still kept winter sheep and 8 plough beasts and his wheat worth nearly £800 was his largest … and hoe wheat. Young boys kept sheep in the Levels, drove plough horses, planted potatoes and beans; the girls did …