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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 5 woodland, and 58 occupied with buildings, roads, and waste. The soil produces good crops of wheat, barley, and … It comprises 4576 acres, of which 118 are common or waste. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… the remainder being principally undivided common and waste. The surface in Walls is diversified with hills, though … on his lands at Melsetter; and considerable tracts of waste have been reclaimed and brought into profitable … plantations, and the remainder hill-pasture, moorland, and waste. The surface is marked by two mountainous ranges, …
A History of the County of Essex
… houses were being built against the wall and on the town waste adjoining it, and in the mid 14th century several …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 783 meadow and pasture, and the remainder roads and waste. Walpole St. Andrew and St. Peter together form one … supported; and 30 per annum, the rent of an allotment of waste land, is expended among the poor. About a mile south of … apprenticing children; and 34 a year, the rental of some waste land awarded under an inclosure act in the 41st of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… at Shelfield. In 1086 a hide of arable there was waste. 75 By 1317 there were three common fields. Town field … Rye, oats, and barley were grown. 77 By 1576 much of the waste round Shelfield had evidently been inclosed; it then … Walsall Wood area was one large common. Squatting on the waste, however, had already begun. A house and 4 a. at …
A History of the County of Stafford
… part of Cannock forest. Much of it remained common or waste until the 19th century, but by c. 1600 encroachment had … a hide of land there; in 1086, however, the hide was waste. 15 Shelfield was an inhabited area by the earlier 13th …
A History of the County of Stafford
… MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1086 the king held a hide of waste land at Shelfield apparently as part of the manor of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the time of the Conquest: some former arable at Bescot was waste in 1086. 71 Presumably there was arable farming by the … charter to the burgesses reserved his right to approve the waste. 74 In 1286 eleven tenants were presented for … 13th and early 14th centuries the lords made grants of waste for inclosure in parcels of up to 40 a. in Bescot, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… or free schooling; the schoolroom which was built on the waste that year with the aid of a grant from the National …
A History of the County of Stafford
… land at BESCOT was held by the king in 1086 but was then waste. 4 By the later 13th century Bescot was part of the … him further land in Bescot and Walsall, including all the waste in Bescot which Roger had previously reserved to … gave John son of Nicholas Wodemon of Bloxwich a plot of waste in Walsall, probably in Bloxwich. John gave all his …