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A History of the County of Oxford
… A half yardland in 1432 included 11¼ a. of arable, 91 but yardlands in 1668 were reckoned apparently at 30 a., and the theoretical division of the township into 64 yardlands suggests a statute measure of c. 26 a. excluding meadow. 92 Most recorded yardlands contained up to 32 a. of arable, 93 though in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Cote formed part of Bampton manor. A part (later 4 yardlands) belonged from the 10th century to Bampton … manor, and from the 12th to the 17th century 7 or 8 yardlands were attached to Shifford manor. 2 In 1238 Henry … house, dovecot and fishpond (worth nothing), 15 tenant yardlands and over 200 a. of demesne, and pleas and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… days' labour-service still owed; they included three of 2 yardlands each and five of 1 yardland each. One was held by a … at the manor-house. The customary tenements were then 2 yardlands, 9 half yardlands, and 15 cottar's tenements; the yardlanders worked …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… century by Roger son of Ralph of Poulton who granted 3 yardlands to Flaxley abbey and also made the abbey another …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… both had gone by 1808. 7 In 1594 copyholders had held in yardlands or half-yardlands since time immemorial. 8 In 1615 a demesne …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Weald Lane, originated as the farmhouse for 3 copyhold yardlands on Bampton Earls manor. 73 From the late 16th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the 19th was presumably in hedgerows. 75 Medieval yardlands on Bampton Earls manor seem to have comprised only … as later, with 4½ a. of meadow. 77 Seventeenth-century yardlands varied greatly, but were usually reckoned to … been extinguished, since the farm had commons for only 4 yardlands. 87 In the 15th century and earlier the demesne was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… In origin the farmhouse for an amalgamation of 3 copyhold yardlands, 65 it was adopted as the manor house presumably …