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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1086 blanch, besides a three-day food farm of wheat, malt, and honey. That farm had been converted to a cash payment of … ploughlands, six in demesne, were worked by six villani and 15 bordars, with four ploughteams; the demesne had only … yardlanders were not heavily burdened, owing mainly rents and reaping duties, besides threshing and carrying services; …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish, Great Fordham manor was concentrated in the east and south-east, Archentines manor was in the north-west but included a meadow beside Fiddlers wood in Aldham, 24 and the Frith was in the north-east. Parts of other manors, such as Gernons from Wormingford, and Mount Bures manor, extended into Fordham from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Fordham Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. Probably in the 970s Beorhtnoth, abbot of … the iron railings along the road. 46 Two other large gardens, walled in red brick, lying south-east of the present …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) FORDINGBRIDGE ( St. Mary), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Fordingbridge, Ringwood and S. divisions of the county of Southampton, 20 miles (W. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… land held by the Crown in demesne, mainly extraparochial and uninhabited woodland and waste, and on the other manorial and private freehold land, mainly …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… demesne land of the Forest of Dean was extraparochial and had no churches. Newland church, the rector of which was entitled under grants of 1283 and 1305 to the tithes of Whitemead and of new closes and assarts within the Forest, 15 was …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… by opening a day school in his new chapel at Berry Hill and was followed by Henry Berkin, who established a similar … school at Holy Trinity church near Drybrook in 1819, and by Henry Poole, who provided schools for Parkend and Bream in 1824 and 1830 respectively. Those schools were …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the first of a family which was later surnamed Forester and kept forests under the Crown until the early 13th … a portion for public recreation grounds and cottage gardens. The scheme was not pursued: negotiations with the … footpath guides and fees from the camp sites and car parks provided additonal income for the Commission, though in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Forest of Dean Industry INDUSTRY Its timber and mineral resources have given the formerly extraparochial Forest of Dean a rich and distinct industrial history. The Forest lies in a basin … originally extended to all land but was later banned in gardens, orchards, and curtilages and in the extensive …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Gloucestershire in the angle formed by the rivers Severn and Wye as they approach their confluence. A large tract of woodland and waste land there was reserved for royal hunting before … sheep on the Forest waste and worked small arable plots, gardens, and orchards. In 1896 in the parishes of East and …