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History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… D.H. The traditional courts and their successors in Ghana's legal history, 1800-1914. Brown, A.K.M. Ph.D., London. 1971 … Changing settlement patterns in Ashanti, 1873-1966. Darko, S.A. Ph.D., London. Chruch Missionary Society missions, … Zimbabwe, with particular reference to the Zambezi teak woodland of northwestern Matebeleland, 1890-1960. Kwashirai, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in Neolithic times until the later 20th century the county's population was predominantly rural, though long before the … Land set aside had either to be left fallow, planted as woodland, or used for certain specified non-agricultural … sites: typical payments were those for agreed methods of woodland management, for leaving grassland unploughed or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or dry seasons. The rent of such land varies only from 25 s. to 30 s. an acre, 27 s. being a fair average. 2. The stonebrash is … no sign of labour becoming scarce, many acres of woodland were grubbed up. Such lands have, however, gradually …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… land and to permanent grass, and by the clearance of woodland by and for the cattle and sheep of the dairymen and … land, but much of the inclosure was directly from woodland and rough grazing. Hedging and ditching were great … to lie still. 62 Land that was never accorded a whole year's bare fallow was to be found in parts of the common fields …
A History of the County of Somerset
… demolished in the later 20th. At Holcombe in 1086 15 a. of woodland were recorded. 19 Field names current in the 19th century suggest former coppices and woodland cleared and converted to arable. 20 In 1791 the … School House in Aisholt from c. 1927 until his death. 38 O.S. Map 1/50,000, sheet 181 (1976 edn.); sheet 182 (1976 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Alban's, St - Aldborough Alban's (St.) ALBAN'S (ST.) a borough and market-town having … which 434 acres are arable, 287 pasture and meadow, and 20 woodland. A stock and pleasure fair is held on June 22nd. The …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Albourne woods were presumably in the south, where most woodland lay later. 18 In 1838 there were 120 a. of woods in … inhabited c. 1937, and was used in 1956 as a nurseryman's store; 43 it was later demolished. Yew Tree House at the … by c. 1840 there were three or four, including the King's Head inn, on the Albourne side of the road, besides others …
A History of the County of Sussex
… The Albourne manor demesne farm had 316 a., including woodland, c. 1265. 65 In 1743, when it was called Albourne … and later. 71 Fixed rents at Albourne manor brought in 20 s. a year c. 1265. 72 Some tenements were evidently later … farm, mentioned from 1790, of 151 a., and William Borrer's land in the north-east quarter, of 204 a. Nine other farms, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 5037 acres are arable, 839 meadow and pasture, and 226 woodland; the surface generally is undulated, and the quality … are employed. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 26. 6. 3.; patron, the Bishop of Salisbury; … 4130 acres, of which 731 are arable, 550 pasture, 130 woodland, 20 acres sites and gardens, 19 hops, and 2700 …
A History of the County of Northampton
… of the Mount is the parish church and Collier and Baker's plan of 1727 20 shows that most of the houses in the … its enlargement in 1532, provided Alderton with its only woodland. Its importance in this respect is reflected in the … in 1580, a 21-year lease of several parcels of wood and woodland, totalling 90 a., in Potterspury, Alderton and …