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A History of the County of Oxford
… parish a downland aspect. In 1958 there was only one small wood on Britwell Hill and another on Castle Hill, and these … widow of John Cottesmore, the Chief Justice, and Matthew Hay (Heye), her second husband, presented in 1443 and in 1453 Matthew Hay was called lord of Britwell. 64 After the deaths of Amice …
A History of the County of Northampton
… are still in the village. It is the property of W. T. Vere Wood, esq., who lives at The Manor House, which stands on the … and worth 30. There were two mills rendering 33 s. 4 d.; a wood pertaining to the manor which used to render 100 s. … shares were held by Sir Charles Isham, bart., William Wood, and Mrs. Locock, 71 and by 1890 Lord Wantage had …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… In 1250 the abbess of Wilton alleged that in her Vernditch Wood the lord of the chase prevented her from taking … of Pembroke and in the mid 16th century included corn, hay, and wool tithes from the demesne of Stoke Farthing … closes in which other tenants had pasture rights after the hay had been cut. In 1632, when the demesne farm was leased, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… following a line from Cockroost Farm to Quidhampton Wood in Wroughton. South-east of the line is the Kennet … passed to other owners in the 13th century or later. 81 Hay tithes from Broad Hinton and Uffcott were also part of … the rest of the parish. In 1295 the vicar was entitled to hay tithes from 'below the hill', that is from lands …
A History of the County of Hertford
… small woods in the centre of the parish, called Great Wood, Middle Wood and Chapel Wood, and a small copse in the south called Foxholes. In the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… The present woodwork of the tower is modern, but the wood gable and some balusters with part of the west gallery … door is another lancet window, and at the point where the wood framework of the tower begins is a third which has … side. It is set in a gabled projection covered by a modern wood porch. To the west of the south doorway is a two-light …
A History of the County of Worcester
… a small stone building with a bell-turret. The roof was of wood, unceiled, and the pulpit painted blue and gold. An old … 22 (xiv cent.); Worthemernys 23 (xv cent.); Lamborne Hay, the Seven Wells, the Doore Conynger, Bitteling Hunger, … parcel of ground pertaining to his office called the Play-hay, refused to pay him the money due for butter and cheese, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… has architraves and keystones to the windows, and the wood mullions and transoms may be later insertions. Bigland, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… picturesque. The parish contains large patches of wood and moorland and the timber is exceptionally fine. There … common of pannage for hogs and right of estovers of dead wood for all necessary fuel. He also claimed to hold his land … of it. The name survives today in Hinchelsea House and Wood. Before the Conquest a certain Bolle held half a hide …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… There was thirty Acres of Meadow, and Pasture Wood, one qu. long, and another broad. This Berengarius was … lying between the Court of the said Sisters and his Wood; the said King likewise confirmed the gifts of Sarra, 4 … called the South-dike by Brodholme, and the third of the Wood. It appears likewise, 19 H. 6. 11 that Elizabeth, who …