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A History of the County of Shropshire
… with wheat and oats and in 1378-9 half of the manorial park was sold for pasture and the rest sown with oats. 42 At … year 24 cattle were purchased for pasturing in the small park and sold at a profit of £3 5 s. Next year 41 cattle were … brought in for fattening; in 1372-3 the pasture in Rowley park was used for 11 cattle brought from other manors and 23 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… emphasis on cattle rearing or dairy farming in the park, whether by the lord or a tenant; that happened at … Foxe refused to show 'by what title he doth hold Oakly Park and keepeth more sheep and cattle than deer'. 31 In … c. 1600 that shows two tenants felling trees in the former park. 33 Generally, however, many more parks were created …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… inclosures made during the period were used to round off a park or extend plantations, as at Sansaw in 1783, where the western side of Sansaw heath was added to Sansaw park, and at Wootton Fawnog near Oswestry, part of which was … to Apley Terrace plantations extending south from Apley Park. 86 Plymley, enthusiastic advocate of inclosures though …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… suggestions to make the south Shropshire hills a national park worried farmers, for amenity use might conflict with … South Shropshire and with an estate of 4,085 a. at Loton Park, was a tireless campaigner to reduce the burdens of the … Leihton, Sir David Wakeman, and the owners of the Apley Park, Longnor, Onslow, Orleton, Plowden, Shavington, Stokesay …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… wooded manor, had three inclosed woods: the lord's wood, a park, and a common wood. 74 The physical character of the … because it will graze alongside cattle, is well suited to park life and may fatten better on poor land than the red … earliest parks, which were perhaps few in number. Ruyton park was enlarged by John le Strange (II) in 1195, 6 while on …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… wood[land] and pasture are rendered 43 s.; and there is a park ( parcus est ibi). The whole is worth £50; when he … [There is] pasture for the cattle of the vill. There is a park for wild beasts ( parcus ferarum); a beech-grove ( silva …
Survey of London
… from the principle of the 'palace' faades of Regent's Park or the Belgravian squares. This feature appears to be derived from houses in Princes Gate facing the park that were built in the late 1840's to designs by H. L. …
Survey of London
… Thurloe Square, Onslow Square, Hereford Square, Hyde Park Gate and (most recently) Kensington Gate had already … of Princes Gate looking across the Kensington Road to Hyde Park. In some of these developments names occur that are met … the apex of the triangular public garden in front of the Victoria and Albert Museum was intended to be covered by …
Survey of London
… Mayfair or St. James's, 10 from St. Marylebone or Regent's Park, 6 from Pimlico and 22 from the rest of London. The … car house' was built for Captain G. D. Sampson of Hyde Park Gate in 1898. 336 Estate-agents were then thinking too …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Earthwork (Plan, p. xxvi), in the N.W. angle of Haffield Park, 1 m. E. of the church, occupies the top of a hill 350 …