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A History of the County of Gloucester
… side of the Coln valley in the south-west, where Cleevely wood by the river and Sowden wood higher up to the south-east were the largest woods, 26 and after inclosure some of it, including Sowden wood, was cleared. 27 The countryside was particularly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Alice de Lisle received permission to inclose 100 acres of wood and 40 acres of waste to make a park. 7 Medieval parks, … 190 Much of the parish was, however, still covered in wood and rough pasture land. A part of this, 100 acres of wood and 40 acres of waste, was inclosed as a park by Alice …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of meadow, nine acres of arable, fifty-seven acres of wood, and one crost of half an acre, valued at fifteen pounds … of Westminster is an award, concerning the tithes of wood due to the vicar of this parish. Church Of Shoreham. …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… from which there is much hilly ground and coppice wood, which reaches to both sides of the London road, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (this fronts to the west). The second pile being of wood and playster contains 2 lower rooms upon the lower … Wick, and Marston parishes and parts of others: Elsfield, Wood Eaton, Islip, Noke, Beckley, Stanton St. John, Forest … 104 John le Venour, 105 Robert Gannage, 106 Peter atte Wood, 107 and William Makkeneye 108 in the period up to 1392. …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… being the staple industry of the inhabitants. Great Wood still remains on the east of the parish. but to-day the wood land only forms a picturesque setting to the corn-fields …
A History of the County of Warwick
… In the east reveal is a socket and a 2 ft. 6 in. wood bar that extends partly across to secure the door. Near … in the chancel is made up from a collection of Flemish wood carvings of various periods of the 17th century: some of …
A History of the County of Worcester
… is carried over Shrawley Brook by Doleham Bridge. Shrawley Wood is a large piece of woodland in the north of the parish … and it abounds with lily of the valley. A rare grassthe wood fescue grassgrows in it, and a great number of fungi. It … in 1558, 1 and followed the descent of the advowson. Wood House, the property of the lord of the manor, is …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… woodland in the parish. 16 On scattered sites 25 a. of wood had been planted by c. 1840, 17 and in the late 20th … a. of meadow, including the detached 22 a., and 25 a. of wood, chiefly plantation on the downs. Most of the land lay …