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A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… bordars worked the rest with five ploughteams. Demesne livestock comprised a horse, 9 beasts, 11 pigs, and 60 sheep. …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… from outside Middlesex shows that the Beaker people kept livestock 65 and cultivated flax and cereals, growing much …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 100 a. of the pasture was permanent. Sheep were the chief livestock: 1,076 were returned in 1801 and 818 in 1875. Park … was succeeded in the parish after the mid 20th century by livestock raising: in 1989 three of the farms mentioned were …
A History of the County of Somerset
… quantities of grain were consumed on the estate by the livestock or by the household, which was small and varied … and a shepherd when the abbey flock was in the parish. 23 Livestock, especially oxen and sheep, were moved between the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… dairy farms and another mainly so, while at two others livestock was raised. Stock then listed included 1,379 cattle …
A History of the County of Oxford
… remained the wealthiest at his death in 1544, leaving livestock in several parishes. 104 His position was filled by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… include carrying service to Bristol or Gloucester, driving livestock to Caen Abbey's manors at Felstead and Horstead, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… In 1926 579 cows in milk or in calf were returned. Other livestock enterprises were then well represented with 472 … they lapsed in the early 20th, they dealt principally in livestock. 19 Blakeney's role as a centre for crafts and …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… Steart, grew wheat, barley, and beans and made cider. His livestock in 1833 comprised 318 sheep, 29 cattle including 15 … copse on former arable. 1 The parish remained dependent on livestock farming in the 20th century. 2 Of eight farms with …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of grassland gradually increased, with sheep the commonest livestock. Wheat and barley were grown in roughly equal, but … grown on some scale. 14 Table XII Badger: Land use, livestock, and crops 1867 1891 1938 1965 Percentage of …