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A History of the County of Oxford
… its name because of the necessity of pulling corn from the mill and other goods up and down the steep valley sides. The … in the valley to the south-west of the church where the mill lay. 11 As the agricultural land was comparatively … farm and 3 in the hands of the peasants. There was a mill rendering 4 s. The recorded population consisted of 12 …
A History of the County of Worcester
… and is much mutilated. There seems to have been no mill held by the lords of Dudley, but the Priors of Dudley … possession of Lord Dudley, 202 and in 1741 a water corn-mill was annexed to the site of the priory. 203 William Frebody died in 1437 seised of a water-mill there, which he held jointly with Margaret his wife of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… arable began with Hall field south-east of the village and Mill field further south. To the west, south of the Cambridge … Great Crouch field north of the village, and Stetchworth Mill field. The last, also called in 1783 Interbait field, … 600 yd. south of the village, which had given its name to Mill field by 1552. 283 It belonged as copyhold to John …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1710. Roger Pantolf gave to Pipewell Abbey the dam of his mill-stream outside their inclosure at Potford. 17 This may …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 7 Both roads were suppressed at inclosure, as was Mill way, which ran north of the Middle Aston road, … of Hill Farm, beside the stream where the medieval mill stood. On clay and in a sheltered position, the site … 4 a. there and 2 a. at the junction of the brook and the mill stream. By 1722 almost all of it was inclosed, but a …
A History of the County of Surrey
… of the abbey, in 1808. 44 Elias of Graffham owned a mill in Shalford in the 13th century. 45 About 1325 Eleanor …
A History of the County of Bedford
… On it stands an old windmill, still in use as a steam-mill, belonging to Mr. F. Simmons. Robert Faldoe died seised in 1621 26 of a mill which probably stood on Mill-Bank, a short distance to the north, and which was …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… falls quickly to the River Hamble, a lane leads to Durley Mill, one of the prettiest parts of the district. 1 The … widened, and the lane crosses it by a low bridge above the mill, passing under the branch railway line to Bishop's …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 44 open in 1993. Near the south end of the street is a mill. On the north side of Jubilee Hill, the road linking the … racehorses in 1992. 320 Mills. In 1086 there was a mill at Little Durnford and three others in the remainder of … excluding Normanton. 321 Great Durnford manor included a mill in the later 12th century and the earlier 14th. 322 …