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A History of the County of Sussex
… enough to supply the house at Offington in 1444 since livestock and corn had to be bought elsewhere, but surplus …
Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… was successfully run as a single farm with a bias towards livestock, supporting a pedigree herd of Red Poll dairy … 1941, with 17 per cent root crops and 44 per cent pasture; livestock comprised over 250 cattle (including a dairy herd) … 7 A few years earlier some of the same people drove away livestock belonging to a prosperous (and probably …
Broadwell Parish: Kelmscott
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… Kelmscott's farmers to diversify into dairying and livestock breeding, some of them (particularly the Hobbs … instruments of arable farming were itemized, together with livestock including sheep, cattle, pigs, poultry, and horses. … dovecots. 20 Even landless labourers sometimes kept a few livestock, pastured presumably on the commons where they …
Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… depression of the 1870s1910s. Mixed arable and livestock farming, with an emphasis on wheat, barley, cattle, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… only 7 ploughteams to support the 20 tenant farmers. The livestock on Broomfield manor were 135 sheep, 16 goats, 17 … half the parish showed a predominance of grassland and livestock husbandry, but a variety of crops was also grown. … dairy farms and 2 holdings rearing cattle and sheep. Livestock comprised 1,189 sheep, 992 cattle, 106 poultry, and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 19th and early 20th century farmers turned increasingly to livestock farming, particularly cattle, and in 1938 pasture … Coalport Enterprises Ltd. 24 Table XVI Broseley: Land Use, Livestock, and Crops 1867 1891 1938 1965 Percentage of …
Broughton Poggs Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… two watermills. The downland provided rough grazing for livestock: 18th-century field names there included Oxleaze … crop in the 1960s gave way to wheat in the 1980s, and livestock farming went into decline, with sheep and pigs …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… at Savernake Low Level station the firm held monthly livestock auctions and separate monthly auctions of calves. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Shropshire sheep and 21 head of cattle. 229 In 1984 the livestock officially recorded in Burntwood parish consisted …
A History of the County of Stafford
… century the abbey had two demesne ploughteams and some livestock, notably pigs and three 'Spanish' asses. 10 There … and £10 to be awarded for the best examples of crops and livestock; it also promoted farm improvements. 15 At its …