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A History of the County of Shropshire
… OF SETTLEMENT. The original endowment of St. Leonard's priory seems to have consisted of the central part of what … on the east by a stream dividing Hadley wood from the king's wood (Wrockwardine wood), on the west by Springwell brook, … so called because it lay at the edge of a large block of woodland, the priory owned four messuages and a cottage, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodall, William 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, … New England, 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, … Richard "ser." St. John's Coll., matric. 25 July, 1655. Woodland, Joseph s. Joh., of Hinckley, co. Leicester, pleb. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles (S. W.) from Stroud; containing 908 inhabitants. This place is … to the Society of Antiquaries by Samuel Lysons, Esq., F.S.A., who published an elaborate account of these relics in … 1571 acres are arable, 658 pasture and meadow, and 12 woodland. The Hall, now a respectable farmhouse, was built in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… No teams were employed on the demesne of Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small … haystall suggesting that they were not completely free of woodland; 14 in 1675 Inchcombe field was said to have been … in the parish was park-land, and the exploitation of the woodland was of considerable economic importance. 22 The …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by the Inferior Oolite, with small deposits of fuller's earth and the Great Oolite on Bown hill. 4 The main route … as its name suggests, has always been heavily wooded; woodland was first recorded in 716, 8 and presumably lay in … when tenants also enjoyed valuable rights in the woodland. 9 A park was recorded at Woodchester from 1311 10 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's bounds were beaten along the frontages on the south side of … Ditch was constructed. 35 From Anglo-Saxon times much woodland was cleared to create the greens, closes, and small … as it contained neither underwood nor pasture. 53 The woodland conveyed with that manor in the 17th century was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 700 hectares (Fig. 28). It is bounded on both the N. and S. by E.-flowing tributaries of the R. Tove at about 115 m. … once the main street, which crosses the area from S.W. to N.E. ('a'-'b' on plan). It is visible S. of the … village. Although the settlement was on the edge of woodland there is every indication that the whole area has …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… includes buildings on each side of the road at Druid's Lodge, in the extreme north-west of the parish. In 1951 the … water-meadows by the river, and several small areas of woodland. A line of high tension pylons runs through the … open fields. There is no record of any extensive area of woodland. Some systematic planting of trees in Lower Woodford …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. The wealth of woodland in Woodford long determined the economic life of the … was important. 2 Some clearances had been made in the woodland at an early date. In 1066 there was arable for 2 … paid a money rent 8 and sent one man to work in the lord's meadow at hay-time and two or three men to the boon works, …
A History of the County of Essex
… along the Roding and greens at Woodford Bridge. Patches of woodland and large greens fringe the High Road and Woodford … portion of the village towards the river. The rector's glebe was also at this end of Woodford. The church and … of the manors to reclaim some of this area, it remained woodland until the middle of the 19th century. Apart from a …