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Magna Britannia
… Wednesday: it was celebrated for its supply of cattle and sheep, and there were four great markets held quarterly. In …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… rose thereafter; over 1,800 cattle were kept in 1966. Sheep were also kept until c. 1950; the size of the adult …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… of land, pasture for 4 horses, 12 oxen, 26 pigs and 104 sheep, and the profits of 8 carucates of underwood to be …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century, and probably long before, was used chiefly for sheep grazing: Ilbury Farm in 1619 was called the Shepherd's … horses, 12 cows, 3 bulls, 24 sows, 3 boars, and 249 sheep. 417 A list of cows drawn up for tithe purposes in the … access to common pasture was severely restricted. 425 Sheep evidently played an important part in Deddington's …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was mostly cowpasture, and Apperley common was used for sheep and geese. 352 In 1803 it was said that the common …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Besides they were to put into the Abbat's Fold all the Sheep which they had in their possession or custody in the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… late 17th century, with farmers owning only a few cows and sheep. 68 The parish, however, included a shop selling …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… woodland. The chalk downland was long used to pasture sheep. Around Wardour castle, built c. 1393, much land was … have held land in Donhead St. Andrew. The numbers of oxen, sheep, and cows held by the tenants indicate mixed farming in the parish. Robert of Ferne owned 80 sheep and Philip of Ferne owned 60. 193 In 1235 that Philip …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and the downland south of them was long used to feed sheep in common. 10 Win Green, which is partly in Donhead St. … and there were 136 tenants of the manor. There was some sheep-and-corn husbandry: flocks totalling 1,573 sheep were kept, but only 50 were kept on the demesne and two …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to produce a good quantity of grain and that a number of sheep and pigs were kept on it and neighbouring manors. 158 … ale. The bishop reserved some of their services for the sheep-shearing which each had to attend. Seven other cottars … but among their dues it was stated that if they had sheep they were each to keep 5 in the bishop's fold from …