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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… structures. (Dorset Procs. LXXXIV (1962), 140.) (53) Big Wood (SY 98 NE). Occupation Debris comes from rabbit-burrows … in a shallow re-entrant below the 50 ft. contour W. of Big Wood(97608843). The pottery(in D.C.M.), of local … (SY 88 NW). Occupation Debris comes from N.E. of Coombe Wood about 175 ft. above sea level on Upper Chalk near its …
A History of the County of Somerset
… collection of tithe wheat and peas, 11 and in 1691 tithe hay and fruit were taken in kind. Areas of orchard and meadow …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the lands of Davyshiel, has its steep sides covered with wood as it approaches the village, and after passing it, and … inhabitants. It comprises 1434 acres, of which 390 are in wood. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at … 300 acres are arable, 1093 pasture and meadow, and 108 wood and common. The tithes have been commuted for 231, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… There were 22½ a. of meadow, 15 a. of pasture, 10 a. of wood and underwood. Livestock included 5 cattle, 11 pigs, and … wheat and 4 cattle and had produced crops of wheat, oats, hay, and fodder. 58 In the 1540s the manor court attempted to … total of 1,353 a. of grass, 212 a. of arable, and 28 a. of wood. 68 Six holdings covering two thirds of the parish in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… (centred TL 012878?) are said to have been found in Oundle Wood. Iron slag, Roman pottery and coins, are recorded. ( … Its general location is identifiable by the name Park Wood on modern maps, and Park Wood Closes on the Enclosure Map of Oundle, 1810 (NRO). The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the vale of the Ouse, over which a substantial bridge of wood, to Aldwark, was built by J. Thompson, Esq., grandfather … acres, in equal portions of arable and pasture, with some wood: in the township of Overbury are 1217 acres. The surface … of worship: a national school was built in 1845. Elizabeth Wood, in 1824, bequeathed 200, of which the interest is …
A History of the County of Oxford
… later described as mowing the meadow of Presteit, making hay with one labourer for a day, carting hay with one man from Midsummer to Michaelmas, and working … with the medieval way by 'My Lady's Hole', interpreted by Wood as the abbess of Godstow's 'hole or way' across the …
A History of the County of Essex
… early clearance of woodland. The farm name Shaws, meaning wood or grove, suggests that it was an assart. 82 Other land … tenants holding a total of 270 a. of arable, 72 a. of wood, and 22 a. of meadow had rights of common for 348 sheep, … ancient common in the north before 1323 and planted Sowen wood, c. 220 a., later known as Soane or Bullock wood, one of …
A History of the County of Essex
… in the Anglo-Saxon period into Cestrewald, the borough's wood, to the north-west and Kingswood to the north. 7 Kingswood remained woodland and wood pasture throughout the Middle Ages, and regular grants … as was some woodland in Greenstead and part of Shrub wood on the border with Stanway in the south-west of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Adams. Known as Newbridge farm, it belonged to Thomas Wood in 1821. 73 It was bought soon afterwards by J. F. Mills … oats, barley, and peas in 1351. Income from livestock, hay, and pasture exceeded that from arable crops in both 1287 … 12 sheep, and 4 mares with their foals, and pasture and hay for his horse. The parker was also keeper of the lord's …