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… farming, with increasing emphasis on pasture. Anthony Wood commented on the richness of pasture in the parish, 82 … Quarterly Paper, ix: copy in Bodl. Per. G.A. Oxon. 8°779. Wood's City of Oxf. i (O.H.S. xv), 53. Hearne's Colln. vi …
… house, attended by 11 children from the ages of 5 to 9. 71 Wood, Athenae Oxon. i. 636; Wood's Life, i (O.H.S. xix), 151; above, Church. O.R.O., MS. …
… village in 1587. 23 The Six Bells inn, visited by Anthony Wood in 1670, 24 reputedly acquired its name c. 1620 when the … Ref. kindly supplied by Mr. J. Walter, Univ. of Essex. Wood's Life, ii (O.H.S. xxi), 189. Stapleton, Three Oxon. …
… no. 127; Harl. Soc. v. 127-8. Cal. Pat. 1572-5, p. 339; Wood's Life, i (O.H.S. xix), 217-18; Stapleton, Three Oxon. … Yarnton (priv. print. 1981). O.R.O., Dash. XV/i/30-42, 45; Wood's Life, i (O.H.S. xix), 218. For an acct. of Dashwood … 10. Westgate Libr., Oxford, TS. list of lords of manor. Wood's Life, i (O.H.S. xix), 217. Hearne's Colln. vi. 187; …
… 185-7. O.R.O., Cal. Oxf. Presentation Deeds II, f. 104. Wood's Life, iii (O.H.S. xxvi), 73. Wood, Athenae Oxon. (3rd edn. 1820), iv. 268; Stapleton, …
… the Gifford water flows, between banks richly crowned with wood and thriving plantations, and comprehending much … 8400 acres, of which 2000 are meadow and hill-pasture, 100 wood and plantations, 200 undivided common, and the remainder …
… Durobrivae shows twelve iron-working sites within the wood and two more to the N. (E. T. Artis, Durobrivae (1828), pl. I). The N. part of the wood where eight of the sites are shown, has been cleared and quarried. The remainder of the wood is dotted with many pits and hollows; some are recent …
… 18 p., of which 793 acres are arable, 81 pasture, and 42 wood; the soil is strong and rather wet, but the lands …
… in the later Middle Ages the Hastings family acquired Boys wood ( c. 72 a.) on the northern edge of the parish, and it … 109 a. of meadow, 4 a. of 'old leys', and 75½ a. of wood and coppice, a total of 407 a.; 51 Boys wood and the Lawns, c. 29 a. of pasture acquired with the …
… parish, was bounded on the north and north-east by Boys wood and Home wood on a line which in 958 seems to have marked the limits … of the early parish ran from the southern tip of Home wood probably down the shallow declivity west of Westfield …