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A History of the County of Shropshire
… and their successors the Stanleys organized woodland clearance. Inclosure began in the late 15th century with the … a generation later. About the mid 16th century systematic clearance of Myddlewood began and so much wood was felled … lead to sudden and radical changes involving woodland clearance and the creation of a patchwork of hedged closes. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Their conditions combined the disadvantages of an urban slum with low agricultural wages. Their houses were of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… for use as major structural timbers. Extensive woodland clearance was a feature of the early Middle Ages. 70 By the … a manor's recorded value between 1066 and 1086 to woodland clearance 20 is speculative. In the 13th century it becomes … Probably the most crucial influence on the course of clearance was the lord's attitude. Most lords, in a period of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ancient parish seem to have been associated with woodland clearance. Eggesley in the north-west and Putlesley or …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… came into being as the result of piecemeal medieval forest clearance. (VCH Northants., II (1906), 5612; RAF VAP CPE/UK …
Survey of London
… middle of the eighteenth century Durham Yard had become a slum, and by the time the Adam brothers took it over, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… the yards behind High Street, and from 1892 systematic slum clearance accompanied new building. The building of the Great … 1,000; meanwhile mortality overall fell from 21 to 8. 19 Slum clearance was impeded by lack of alternative …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… they show that over much of Britain there was patchy clearance of woodland in the later 4th millennium b.c. as the … area the Iron Age saw intensive campaigns of woodland clearance, with large-scale fellings first of broad-leaved …
A History of the County of Oxford
… goods, and the apportionment of blame for the building of slum property. 17 Comprehensive judgements by the Privy … street supervision, the monopoly of the city's mills, and slum properties. 40 Annual Oath and St. Scholastica's Day …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… surface, were found. Pollen analysis suggested that forest clearance was welladvanced when the barrow, probably in Early … analysis suggested barrow built after considerable forest clearance. (Dorset Procs. LXXV (1953), 345.) (16) Bowl (?) … one in a cist with an inurned cremation, were found during clearance for arable and subsequent excavation. Some urns in …