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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… modern form of the name was in use in the 16th century, and the name of the river is derived from it. 2 In 1086 Tilshead was a borough and a large royal estate. The borough may have been planted … when sheep farming increased in the late Saxon period, 3 and the estate was evidently far more extensive than the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… 1,246 acres, of which 453 are arable, 729 permanent grass and 14 woods and plantations. 1 The soil is clay, with a subsoil of varied …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Timsbury TIMSBURY Timbreberie (xi cent.); Tymberbury (xiii and xiv cent.); Tymmysbury (xvi cent.). The small parish of … with the parish church of St. Andrew. The soil is loam and clay with a subsoil of gravel, and the chief crops are … arable land, 475 acres of permanent grass and 64 acres of woods and plantations in the parish. 1 The common fields of …
A History of the County of Bedford
… an area of 1,120 acres, of which 296 acres are arable land and 443 permanent grass. 1 The slope of the ground is irregular, and varies from 266 ft. above the ordnance datum in the north to 369 ft. in the south. The soil is marl, clay and sand, the subsoil gravel; sand-pits have been worked in …
A History of the County of Somerset
… formed by two irregularly-shaped areas lying north-west and south-east of the Foss Way, two miles south-west of … of Sock Dennis added land to Tintinhull between 1883 and 1957 2 so that the area of the parish in 1968 was 2,370 … to a report still current in 1566, that there were 'no woods, but elms growing in hedgerows'. A lease of 1603 …
A History of the County of Rutland
… parish of Tinwell lies on the eastern border of the county and comprises 1,711 acres, mainly of arable land, growing the usual cereal and root crops. It is an irregularly shaped strip of land … above Ordnance datum, between the River Gwash on the north and the Welland on the south. The village is in the south …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… west side of the River Severn, 4 miles below Tewkesbury and 6 miles north of Gloucester. It is 1,924 a. in area 1 and fairly compact, stretching 2 miles from east to west and the same from north to south at the widest part. The …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… west of Salisbury. 1 The village is on the river Nadder and, apart from Mere, is the most populous place in … more features had been designed for the park by Richard Woods, and by 1770 Woods had executed most of them. They included ponds fed by a …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… TITCHFIELD Ticefelle (xi cent.); Tichefelde (xiii and xiv cent.). The parish of Titchfield, containing 4,826 … There are 1,491 acres of arable land, 1,239 of pasture, and 811 of woodland. 1 The ancient parish was of wide extent, … Hook, Funtley, Chark, Posbrook, Bromwich, Segenworth, and Meon. Of these, Crofton, with Stubbington and …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… for which he was rated to the Dane-geld as four Bovats and three Quarters. 1 The Land one Car. When the Conqueror … There was one Sochm. five Vill. four Bord. had two Car and a Half, and twenty Acres of Meadow. In King Edward the Consessor's …