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A History of the County of Sussex
… Worthing Local government and public services LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES Manor Court books of Worthing manor's … 16th century courts were held not more than once a year, and sometimes not for three or four years. Thereafter they …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… gives name to the hundred, is about nine miles in length and one mile in average breadth; it includes Leith Hill, and comprises 4176 acres, of which 563 are common or waste. … fairs take place on Holy-Thursday and September 29th, for sheep and cattle. The living is a vicarage, united in 1735 to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wotton Underwood … in the S. aisle; the walls of the chancel were heightened, and possibly the nave was widened towards the N. in the 15th … 13th-century style at the beginning of the 19th century, and in 1867 the South Aisle was added and the South Chapel …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… N.E. (d)li. S.E. (e)lii. S.W.) Writtle is a large parish and village 2 m. W. of Chelmsford. The Church, Moor Hall and Aubyns are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical c(1). … The walls are mostly of ragstone-rubble with some flint and ironstone; the chancel contains some Roman bricks, and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wrockwardine, a mainly rural parish, lies south and east of the river Tern and north of Watling Street; the western boundary is mostly with Wroxeter parish and to the east lies the northern part of Telford new town. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from the village, comprises 4627 a. 11 p. of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; the soil is fertile, producing good crops of wheat, barley, and oats. The village is beautifully situated on elevated … which the upper portion is principally arable, with some sheep-walks; the lower lands are chiefly in dairy-farms, and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 km. to … area here treated, contained 515 a. in 1882. 8 Its eastern and western boundaries followed no natural features or roads … the township. In 1884 the township became a civil parish and was enlarged to 914 a. by the transfer of Hortonwood and …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… was probably identical with the woodland 1 league long and ½ league broad recorded in Domesday. 64 Referred to as … 1130, it was claimed in 1235 to be well stocked with oaks and underwood. 65 It was within the royal forest of Mount … Yeomen, colliers, and labourers all engaged in mixed farming, and there was also some small-scale textile …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… which geld was paid on 5 hides, contained 17 ploughteams and there was land for another in Charlton. The four … fully. 71 Whatever the balance of arable and livestock farming in the parish before the Black Death, sheep farming seems not to have been of great importance, for …