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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… A fair is held on Whit-Monday, for cattle, horses, and pigs; and there is a pleasure-fair on the two following days. … alternate Saturday, and is chiefly for corn, but also for pigs and cattle. Fairs take place on the first Saturdays in …
Warborough (Including Shillingford)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… crops and re-stocked with plough beasts, cows, sheep, and pigs. 2 The substantial piece of demesne granted to Godstow … additional pieces of meadow to provide for livestock, and pigs were kept. 15 From the later 14th century there may have … and orchards, and some kept bees as well as the usual pigs and hens.9 Cheese-making was common. Agricultural …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and other goods, and for horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs. The market-hall is a neat and convenient building, over …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 16 oxen, a few other cattle, 20 sheep, and a large herd of pigs. 27 The arrest of 10 sacks of wool at Warminghurst manor … end; 293 sheep had been disposed of during the year. Many pigs and a few cattle and horses, besides c. 20 plough oxen, … farmer had 48 cattle and 106 sheep. Several farmers kept pigs. In the early 18th century one farm was experimenting …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to 'lying-in weather', which meant only in time of snow. Pigs also ran there. 74 In the early 17th century it was said … consisted principally of 32 plough-oxen, 16 cattle, 48 pigs, and 250 sheep and lambs. 99 In 1327 the demesne was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Cobbett's time the town was well-known for fine meat. 80 Pigs were sold in the early 19th century 81 but in the … Hall. 86 There, too, were butchers' shambles, 87 while pigs were sold in front of the site later occupied by the … £22 in 1805. 99 In 1770 the fairs were for cattle, sheep, pigs, and cheese. 1 Of these, sheep were apparantly sold only …
A History of the County of Sussex
… grown in the 17th and 18th centuries, and sheep, cows, and pigs kept. 15 In the later 18th century Betchetts and Benland … 339 cattle, 372 sheep, and the large number of 327 pigs. 19 Broadbridge Heath, on the southern boundary, … then mentioned included 420 cattle, 139 sheep, and 285 pigs, and there were 27 a. of orchards. 38 Large estates …
A History of the County of Sussex
… grapes, and peaches, and dairying and the raising of pigs were also carried on. 38 In 1975 there were five general …