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A History of the County of Shropshire
… (drift) roads to the common. The eastern one, settled by squatters, was called Bent Lane. In the early 17th century … building, a barn, became a house. 18 By the 1720s squatters had settled in the north at Netchwood and in the … outlasted the open fields, but as straking had declined squatters had settled on Brown Clee hill. By 1722 there were …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… encouragement. Only in the 1530s are there signs that squatters were beginning to encroach on the commons. 5 The …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… 17th and early 18th centuries. In 1732 there were fourteen squatters on Hayton's Bent and twelve on Rock Lane, six on … on the commons. In Ditton Priors a rise in the number of squatters was associated with mining and quarrying: a 1728 … of land and opportunities of employment. References to squatters can be found in court rolls and other records …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Progressive opinion was hardening against the commons squatters. John Bishton inveighed against them and the … and immorality. 20 Plymley often noted how ineligibly the squatters lived compared with the regular labourers. In Clee … rent and living in the villages. Such views of the commons squatters survived as long as the commons themselves. A …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… recorded on the Terra Regis, it has been suggested, 83 are squatters or 'at any rate scattered tenants with …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… 2 and more building took place in the 18th century as squatters encroached on the green, six encroachments being …
A History of the County of Chester
… Holy Trinity parish was the exception, perhaps because squatters settled on the Crofts. Not until the Restoration …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the 13 single-hearth dwellings presumably being Hay wood squatters' cottages), 10 houses in Eaton (probably including …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… of one-hearth cottages in 1664, 14 many of them probably squatters' homes, later removed from the edge of Enfield …
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