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Brightwell Baldwin
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… HISTORY Brightwell Baldwin pursued the arable-based mixed farming typical of the vale. Its open fields were inclosed in … planted for foxes and game. 24 MEDIEVAL TENANT AND DEMESNE FARMING In 1086 the two Brightwell estates had identical … was for grazing and 277 a. for mowing. Cattle, sheep, and pig numbers were substantially unaltered from 1896, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… to each other. The land was used extensively for sheep-farming in the Middle Ages, especially by ecclesiastical …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… 5 ploughlands (960 a.), 178 there was a change to pastoral farming on the Brimpsfield estate 179 but by 1413 the demesne … and Whitsun in the mid 1780s. 193 The importance of sheep-farming by the early 13th century is indicated by a grant to … had been introduced on Brimpsfield Park farm. 205 Sheep-farming remained important throughout the later 19th and …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… for fattening beef and fodder crops predominate in arable farming. Part of the NottinghamKettering road, first …