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A History of the County of Somerset
… at 70 m. (230 ft.). In the east a small hill at Seamark 77 wood (143 m. (468 ft.)) separates the plateau from a second … was created by the owners of Yarlington House at Seamark wood c. 1900 91 but by 1912 92 a club appears to have been … most of the pasture was in the two parks or in Aylescombe wood, where the underwood had recently been cleared but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… George SpencerChurchill, duke of Marlborough. Some of the wood survived and was used in 1921 to make stalls for the … belfry screen of folding doors dated 1634 and of carved wood 'taken from out-of-sight places in the body of the … of a doorway to the loft on the south. Pieces of carved wood, reputedly remnants of the screen, were used in 1820 to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 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 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 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. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 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. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 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; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 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, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… 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 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 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 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 18 p., of which 793 acres are arable, 81 pasture, and 42 wood; the soil is strong and rather wet, but the lands …