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A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… acres, whereof 600 are arable, about 200 pasture, and 200 waste, cliff, down, and game-covers. The soil consists of a … It comprises 3200 acres, of which 400 are common or waste land; the surface is abruptly varied, and the scenery … on limestone, with occasional beds of gravel. A tract of waste land, consisting of 3500 acres, lying in the parishes …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Nearly one-third of the area is coppice and common waste; the soil is light, and there are several chalk-pits. … and pasture, 131 in market-gardens, and 201 common and waste. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books … 273 acres are arable, 582 pasture, and 1148 woodland, waste, and water. The village is situated on the borders of …
A History of the County of Essex
… 70 per cent of the parish was still woodland or forest waste, 7 and even in 1841 the figure was over 40 per cent. 8 … and pasture, 200 a. inclosed woodland, and 670 a. forest waste, including Wanstead Flats. 28 Much of the grassland lay … some time previously been taken into the king's hand for waste committed there during the minority of Thomas Hesdin …
A History of the County of Essex
… James Long, Bt., for leave to build a school on the forest waste of the manor. 5 Presumably the school was then in …
A History of the County of Essex
… the inclosure by the manor court of the woodland and waste in and north of the old village. In the 1830s the court … to make frequent 'voluntary grants' of small pieces of waste for building purposes. 52 Some were in Voluntary Place, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It comprises 3237 acres, of which 1133 are common or waste land; the ground is hilly, and the soil light. The … about 11,000 acres, of which a large portion is high waste land: the soil in some parts is light and sandy, and in … of which 240 are arable, 193 grass-land, 1 wood, and 6 waste. It forms a lofty eminence, the highest ground on the …
Warborough (Including Shillingford)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… been at least partly created through the ploughing up of waste, which was ongoing in the late 13th century. 8 Possible … generate electricity and to produce fertilizer from food waste and pig slurry. 5 Only one other small farm remained in …
Survey of London
… arable close, being in 'a low boggy place', was still waste land. 8 There is no sign that Sir William Pulteney, who …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… annually. The parish comprises 4493 acres, exclusive of waste land. The living is a vicarage, with that of Thundridge … 3154 a. 3 r. 33 p., of which 1290 acres are common or waste; and the third, 372 a. 2 r. 32 p. The living of Holy … are meadow and pasture, 95 woodland, and 270 road and waste. The village was considerably improved a few years …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… that there were 70 houses at Wareham and that 73 lay waste. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ed. D. Whitelock (1961), 183. …