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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Tetbury Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY: Agriculture. In 1086 Tetbury was a large agricultural estate. Including the separately assessed Upton estate, there were 10 demesne teams and 27 servi, and … dismembered at that period by the creation of Charlton and Upton manors which took the bulk of the customary land, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was later built there. Some kind of inner earthwork stood in the field above the ramparts until the mid 18th century … a considerable population in the four outlying hamlets of Upton, 1½ mile NNW. of the town, Charlton ½ mile WNW., … Elmestree 1½ mile WSW., and Doughton 1¼ mile SSW. The Upton estate had 16 tenants in 1086, 26 and in 1221 there …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a prosperous market town and the small hamlets of Upton, Charlton, Doughton, and Elmestree, lay on the … gave it an added importance; 'Tetta's minster' mentioned in 681 was evidently there. 2 In the 11th century Tetbury was … the parish was formed into the new civil parish of Tetbury Upton, leaving 114 a. in the town and its immediate vicinity …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… confirmed the charter to the 'burgesses of Tetbury'. 58 In 1268 the burgesses had a further grant from Maud Longespee … court and of the revenues from the town remained firmly in the hands of the lord and his steward. The term borough … presumably also exercising jurisdiction over the vestigial Upton manor. If a court for Doughton manor was held it …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to Worcester cathedral. He also granted other lands in Tetbury to the cathedral, 48 which may have acquired the … to Ethelm for 3 lives, and in 988 he granted 1 'mansae' at Upton for 3 lives to Ethelward. 49 At the Conquest, however, … the 23-hide manor of TETBURY was held by Siward, while Upton was held by Aluric as tenant to King Edward, and in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Nathaniel Cripps, a justice of the peace, whose house at Upton became the meeting-place and was visited several times … and some other members were persecuted and imprisoned in 1660 but the meeting was still held in the 1670s. 47 A piece of ground owned by Cripps, adjoining …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… inns, the principal ones providing the main facilities in the town for business meetings and entertainments. Thirteen taverns were recorded in 1594 99 and 42 victuallers were licensed in 1755. 1 The … 35 but it had closed by 1974. A recreation ground on the Upton road was acquired as a war memorial in 1921 and was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the Somerset Domesday Part 1 NOTE The reader should bear in mind throughout that the date of the Domesday Survey is … Collinson prefixed to his History of the County, published in 1791, a copy of the Exchequer Domesday, with an index … The same Ralf 'rufus' holds of the bishop Opetone [Upton Noble]. 95 Lesmer held (it) T.R.E. and paid geld for 3 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the second half of the 16th century. 2 The export trade in undressed cloth, which had grown with the growth of … one or two at Calne, 297 one at Malmesbury, 298 and one at Upton Lovell on the Wylye were all that survived. Those at Chippenham and Upton Lovell, which were large concerns, 299 continued to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… can be little doubt that it was a place of importance in the early Anglo-Saxon period. Its well-protected position … was fortified by the Danes and retaken by Edward the Elder in 941 has arisen from a confusion with Tempsford (Beds.), 2 … five came from Abingdon, Chinnor, Hughenden, Tusmore, and Upton. 28 Other burgesses came from Aylesbury, Oxford, …