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A History of the County of Somerset
… often exceeding income from pigs or from the sale of wood. In the middle of the century cash was raised through … the sale of mowing works and of small quantities of wood, meadow, and pasture, but most income was from rents and … in 1696 had only 50 a. of wheat, barley, dredge, peas, and hay. 80 A poor husbandman had rented a small piece of hill …
A History of the County of Somerset
… southern ground-floor room of the main range. Pasture and wood on Quantock, amounting to a third of the parish, was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for lack of summer grazing, whereas there was always ample hay from Ouse fen for the winter. 70 The lords were in … in summer to graze the cattle which could be kept on hay during the winter. Ten farmers were said to rent summer … commons from October until winter, kept them indoors on hay during the hard weather, and grazed them in paddocks and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the silt left by floodwater produced good crops of hay but in 1575 it was said that in some years Ouse fen was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… tithes, 50 a. of arable, and 41 a. in Ouse fen in lieu of hay tithes. 10 Lessees resident in Over included John Pope …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and comprises about 2000 acres, of which 500 are wood, and the rest arable and pasture. The surface is … which river the soil is productive, and interspersed with wood; in some parts the land is bare of wood, and a strong clay soil. Several coal-mines are in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… competent lands within the demesne of Overton Castle, and wood to build them burgages; and in the 28th year of his … rapidly between lofty and precipitous banks, crowned with wood. There is neither trade nor manufacture of any kind … on the west by gently sloping hills richly covered with wood from the margin of the water to their summits. A few of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… is divided into twelve small bays, and has two original wood-mullioned windows, now blocked. The wall at the back is …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 38 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, and acre of wood in Colworth and Oving, worth 53 s. 10 d. 117 This was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… E. and the S. end of the house are modern additions (M. E. Wood in Arch. Journal, cv, Supplt. (1950), 1618). The moated …