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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… south of the Sands, N. division of Lancashire, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from Burton-in-Kendal; containing 322 inhabitants. … 496 acres are arable, 2085 meadow and pasture, and 184 woodland and common. The tithes have been commuted for 403, … of which 100 are arable, 200 meadow and pasture, and 13 woodland. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yelford Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Yelford's medieval open fields probably covered much of the area of … probably in the meadows along Shifford brook. 30 No early woodland was recorded in Yelford, but in the later Middle … arable proportion to two thirds. 59 The farm without its woodland was reckoned to be worth c. £250 a year in the mid …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres, of which 836 are arable, 800 meadow and pasture, 10 woodland, and 177 common, roads, and waste. Many of the women … lace-making. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 13. 4.; net income, 317; patron and incumbent, the Rev. E. S. Bunting. The church is an ancient structure, and contains …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to a piece of shaped wood designed to fit across a person's back and shoulders, with a chain hanging from each end onto … growing on. There was a considerable market for garden, woodland and orchard plants and a foreign visitor in the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… source whence the present account has been compiled. Day's great work on the British fishes contains but rare allusions to Somerset; although Baker's paper is quoted in the preface (p. iii.) it has evidently … Delaroche. This species appears under two names in Baker's list, viz. as the braize, Pagrus vulgaris, Cuv., and as the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Vertigo substriata is a mistaken identification of Miller's record of Turbo sexdentatus which is Vertigo antivertigo, … and Natural History Society, about 1860, by Mr. Woodland, who told me that it was taken at Langport. There … Taunton) Later Mr. Bidgood wrote: 'About the year 1864 Mr. Woodland gave me a small collection of butterflies taken near …