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A History of the County of Essex
… was allowed to claim pasture for 8 cows, 6 horses, 40 sheep, and 20 pigs over a year old, with their offspring. 12 …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1374, 6 and wheat in the 18th century, when cows and sheep were kept; Woodmancote Place farm had a flock of 220 sheep in 1723. 7 In the later 18th century most of the parish … 8 though over 100 cattle besides draught animals, and 922 sheep were recorded in 1801. 9 Hop gardens were mentioned c. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Sections of High Street were defined by market names: Sheep Market or Sheepmarket Street seems to have applied to … market. In 1567 the east end of High Street, formerly the sheep market, was called Hogmarket Street, 65 but by the … were still in Market Street in the 19th century. 68 The sheep market was moved from High Street to Oxford Street …
A History of the County of Oxford
… too, from Sir Henry Lee, steward of the manor and sheep farmer on a large scale. 19 The corporation provided a … and conventionally called doe skin, was made from sheep skin, dressed and dyed locally, and finished on the … Exhibition of 1851 Woodstock was represented by deer and sheep skin gloves by Elizabeth Money and a machine for …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… held on May 4th and October 17th, for horses, cattle, and sheep; and on the third Tuesday in May a general fair takes …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… carried out. It was a livestock farm, carrying 370 sheep and 200 lambs in 1888, but the offgoing crop in 1873 … in both 1873 and 1921, poorly drained and unsuitable for sheep. 60 The other bigger farms of the Beaufort estate, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… comprised 13 riding horses, 11 cattle, 33 pigs, and 151 sheep. The estate was worth £7. 1 Arable land known as … Cowleaze. 7 Common pasture for oxen and presumably for sheep was mentioned in the 16th century on the leazes along … manor were required to stock no more than three sheep per acre in two fields and were repeatedly ordered to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and later. Though there was some early inclosure for sheep farming the area was largely one of nucleated villages … and Showell, properties of Bruern abbey, Cistercian sheep farming seems to have been a cause, while at Water …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and there was substantial early inclosure, chiefly for sheep farming, at Cogges and South Leigh in the west and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The demesne also included the right to feed cattle and 300 sheep on the common pastures of Wootton Rivers. 85 In 1314 … the land south-east of the stream was common pasture for sheep and cattle, and there was a small common meadow called … West moor. The copyholders had feeding in common for 727 sheep, the rector for 60, the lessee of the demesne for 300, …