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A History of the County of Bedford
… acres, of which 332 are arable land, 59 permanent grass, and 4 woods and plantations. 1 The soil is rich loam, the subsoil clay. …
A History of the County of Rutland
… Chase, formerly extra-parochial, was formed into a parish and part of its land was annexed to Uppingham. 2 The common, … there were brickworks to the south-east of the town, and the Uppingham trencher manufacture is said to have been … 26 Peter was eventually granted 55 a year in lieu of the woods of which his ancestors had been dis seised. 27 He took …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… of the parish is 1,216 acres of clay land, growing cereals and beans. There are about 68 acres of woodland and the remainder of the land is about half arable and half pasture. The ground rises from the Alconbury Brook, …
A History of the County of Worcester
… an area of 3,211 acres, of which 691 acres are arable land and 1,824 permanent grass. 1 The parish lies on Keuper Marl … alluvium near the river. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans, with hay in the Severn meadows. There are a great … orchards. In 1868 Messrs. Kent & Sons had spirit, cider and vinegar works here; a considerable amount of market …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Upton Warren is situated about 3 miles north of Droitwich, and has an area of 2,520 acres, of which only 4 are water. In … 886 acres of arable land 1,398 acres of permanent grass and 31 acres of woodland. 1 The Salwarpe River forms part of its southern boundary and the Hampton Brook and one of its tributaries part of the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… of Slough. Parts of it were added to Eton in the same year and to Wexham in 1901. Its area in 1831 was 1,943 acres, 1 the greater part being rural in character and including a detached portion near Wexham practically all woodland, Upton Wood, Rowley Wood, Gallions Wood and others being found there. A stream called Chalvey Ditch …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Rather more than half this area is arable, growing corn and potatoes, but where the parish touches the Fens there is … at Lady's Wood towards Wood Walton parish on the west, and Cockcrafts on the east side of the parish, there was at … in breadth 1 and in the next century there were three woods belonging to the demesne of the manor, namely, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the Vale of Pewsey about 5 miles south-east of Devizes, and measures 3 miles across the clays in the north and 4 … Marshfield, Marshcliff, Eastcott common, and Maggots woods. 223 By 1610 the entire farm was reckoned at 540 a. and … in length by half a league in breadth. 231 In 1461, the woods, which lay on the clays north of Urchfont and …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… from Hungerford station on the Great Western Railway, and about 9 miles north from Andover. It contains several … Tarrant to Great Bedwyn, but the church, vicarage and the two manor farms, recalling the fact that the manor … arable land, 558 acres of permanent grass and 157 acres of woods and plantations. 1 The soil is clay, while the subsoil …
A History of the County of Northampton
… 258 ft. near Wadenhoe Great Wood. The surface soil is clay and the subsoil is Oxford clay, cornbrash and Great Oolite. The parish comprises 1,199 acres. It was … the River Nene, a little way off the high road from Islip and Aldwinkle to Oundle. The church is in an isolated …