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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Great Postland in the floods of March 1947 (M. of Agric., Harvest Home, 51, 54). R. H. Warner, Hist. Thorney Abbey, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of land, apparently 7 a., and owed two week works at harvest and one during the rest of the year except at the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as a result of recession in the cloth industry, successive harvest failures, and, possibly, plague. 297 In 1596 a Witney …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Pixey and 25 in South Mead, both commonable after hay harvest, and 31 a. in small inclosed meadows or hams along …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and 1 August and 10 works weekly, provided by two men, at harvest time. 12 Customary tenements were held by copy for …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… farmer took the lead in abolishing the traditional form of harvest horkeys in 1857, encouraged by the vicar, 11 but in Ditton Green in the 1930s most farmers still staged harvest celebrations, then called 'hawkies', for their …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… IN WOODDITTON, 1300-1500 Ditton Valence home farm 1302 (harvest) Thetford's home farm 1324-5 (sowing) Ditton Valence …