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A History of the County of Shropshire
… farms were mixed. 19 Clover was grown by 1660. 20 Dairy farming was relatively important, and some farmhouses had … than any other kind of stock as sheep farming declined; pig rearing also increased, and in 1964 the disused brickworks at Gitchfield was occupied by a model pig and poultry farm owned by Coalport Enterprises Ltd. 24 …
Broughton Poggs Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… its indentations (characteristic of areas of open-field farming) suggesting that the boundary was determined only … two fifths used for hay. 24 During the Second World War farming practices in the parish diverged: hay and clover were … barley and wheat production with cattle, sheep, and pig rearing. 16 Barley was the dominant crop, Robert Elk (d. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in 1711 and elsewhere in the parish before 1714 a Roman pig of lead of the 2nd century A. D. The site of neither find … to (Sir) Maurice Berkeley. 76 By the later 16th century farming at Wyke was predominantly pastoral. The principal … tenant of a cottage the right to graze a ringed and yoked pig on the adjoining waste in return for both cash rent and …