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A History of the County of Somerset
… with tiled roofs. A small 16thcentury house, converted to agricultural use, stood on the north-west corner of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… provided some local employment in the 17th century, 4 but agricultural labour was by far the commonest employment in … 1851 there were 6 gloveresses. 6 The 'extreme poverty' of agricultural labourers in the parish was lamented in 1868 by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… meeting of the manorial court was in 1720, to regulate agricultural matters. 19 The two churchwardens were financed …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the mill house (27). The village has always been mainly agricultural but a good bed of Lower Lincolnshire Limestone …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Calne held by the king from the 9th or 10th century. Agricultural land at Calne held by Calne church in 1086 was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as high as £40 an acre for conversion to arable. 61 In the agricultural depression of the later 19th century it may have …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… branch of the Yscir stream. The population is exclusively agricultural, and the right of common on the surrounding … slate; the soil of the arable land is sandy, and the chief agricultural produce is barley, oats, and extensive potato …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… pleasuregrounds, and plantations. The Yorkshire Central Agricultural Association was formed in 1832, under the … is every where uninteresting. One of the most important agricultural improvements in the county is the drainage of … and inclosed, about seventy years since. Every kind of agricultural crop is cultivated in the county; and the …