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Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… pasture, 140 a. of meadow, 110 a. of wood, and 140 a. of furze and heath; the figures are not accurate, but probably … as Upper Filkins common, and included the area laid out as furze grounds for the poor in 1776. 16 A 19th-century account … 1776 a 12-a. plot west of the FilkinsBurford road became a furze ground for the poor, to provide fuel in compensation …
Broadwell Parish: Filkins
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… latter skirted the western edge of the poor allotments and furze grounds, and survived as a bridle way in the early 21st … charity before the 20th century, however, was the poor's furze ground awarded at inclosure in 1776, half the income …
Broadwell Parish: Holwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… OHC, Cal. QS, VIII, p. 682 and plan. That running past the furze grounds: OHC, Broadwell and Filkins inclo. award; OS …
Broadwell Parish: Kelmscott
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… Turner had 15 loads of firewood worth 4 10 s., while furze worth 4 s. belonging to a labourer in 1582 had … presumably on the commons where they could also cut furze. 21 Parliamentary Inclosure 17989 Some small-scale, … MS Wills Oxon. 297/4/7; Crossley at al., Kelmscott, 734. Furze worth 4 s. was presumably also from the common. Wm …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the Middle Ages, the large downs or 'balls', mostly under furze and heath, were used like the woodland for pasturage. …
Broughton Poggs Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… and in the absence of woodland the downs also produced furze and heath for fuel. 12 From the 16th century small …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… one hundred of pasture, forty of wood, and one hundred of furze and heath, with the appurtenances in Burton Jorce, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and 70 acres are set apart in lieu of the right of cutting furze. Burton-Lazars BURTON-LAZARS, a chapelry, in the parish …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… parts; and dells and ravines, formerly the beds of broom, furze, and heath, have been planted with larch, or formed …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… late years it has become a common practice to plant or sow furze and hawthorns on the tops of the mounds. The stones, …
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