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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was the Cheese Country devoted to cheese dairy farming and grazing. To the extreme south-west lay a small part of the Butter Country, and in the extreme south-east there were fragments of a … Wiltshire formed the centre of a great region of sheep-and-corn husbandry. In the extreme north-west there was a …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… pure white variety of the latter used for vases, ornaments and busts. It appears also to have been used for other … since this practice was prohibited in 1711 [Acts (1711)], and again two years later [Acts (1731)]. The repetition … Houghton found that alabaster along with white rock MARBLE and lime calcinated flints were used to help the fermentation …
The Aldermen of the City of London
… of completeness, Sheriffs, Recorders, Common Serjeants and other civic dignitaries as well as Common Councillors. … 1314 Walter Crepyn (afterwards Alderman of Cornhill and M.P. for the City), sat for Middlesex. 1316 (July) Walter … have been identical with the future Alderman of Langbourn and Candlewick. 1322 (May) W. Crepyn again represented …
A History of the County of Essex
… was cultivated by 4 servi with 2 ploughs in both 1066 and 1086, and the only recorded livestock in 1086 were 6 cattle and 1 horse; there was wood for 12 swine, and 3 a. of meadow. …
A History of the County of Essex
… the road from Marks Tey on a small part of the south-west, and by field boundaries on most of the remain- ing sides; in the north-west, south-west, and south-east, however, the parish boundary ran across … the south, but only the western half remained in 1876. The malting, used in the 18th and 19th centuries, was attached to …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… parish of Aldsworth lies 6.5 km. south-east of Northleach and 5 km. north-east of Cirencester. In 1976 it covered an area of 1,356 ha. (3,350 a.) 1 and was irregular in shape with the boundaries marked by field boundaries save on the west and part of the south where they followed the river Leach and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… monks' were holding the Derbyshire manors of Doveridge and Marston-upon-Dove from Henry de Ferrers. 3 It is equally … Priory but those of the abbey of St. Pierresur-Dives and that a priory had not yet been founded at Tutbury, the … II. 4 It records the extensive endowment given by Henry and his wife Bertha to the priory, which was dedicated to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This parish, which includes the hamlet of Bures, and contains 1557 a. 2 r. 37 p., was anciently parcel of the … was divided among several proprietors. The soil is rich, and constitutes fine cornland; the scenery is picturesque. A … The living is a recrory, valued in the king's books at 11, and in the gift of the Crown: the tithes have been commuted …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY Agriculture Open Fields and Commons Alwoldsbury's field or fields were mentioned in 12467. 1 No later references have been found and, since a grant of arable and meadow in 1351 lay 'in Alwoldsbury and Alvescot', 2 the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… ALWALTON (B.a.). (O.S. 6 in. V N.W.) Alwalton is a parish and village on the right bank of the Nene, 4 m. W.S.W. of Peterborough. The Church and the reconstructed porch (4), are the principal monuments. … by inhumation have been found here, one in 1863 of a man and woman with two bronze bangles, a coin of Alexander …