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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was accustomed later to let it annually by auction for sheep pasture. 20 Cricket is played on the Green in summer … giving access to the open-field strips and used also as sheep-walks. Many have since disappeared but some remain as … livestockfarming, although trespass by steers and sheep was presented in court in the period 140220. 241 The …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… (xiv cent.). 8 The SheepWalk, a name still preserved by Sheep-Walk Farm, near the Billing Brook, where there is a … cheese, bacon, honey, fowls, geese, young pigs, lambs, sheep, butter, eggs, beef, and money for herrings, brewing, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of pasture, 90 a. of woodland, and, among the stock, 172 sheep. A recorded population of 20 villeins, 14 bordars, and … until the 17th century. Stock raising, principally of sheep, is recorded in 17th-century inventories. In 1640 a yeoman left sheep and lambs, a bull, cows and calves, horses, pigs, two …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… higher slopes once provided grazing for large flocks of sheep. The lower reaches were formerly occupied by open … Stockton and Savernake. Each could pasture 30 second-year sheep, 1 wether, oxen, and other beasts at the lord's … the summer of 1403 no cheeses were produced. 294 Corn and sheep stocks continued high in the 16th century but …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Lane, bailiff of the queen, for distraining him by 1,500 sheep, for his default in not appearing when impleaded in the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… on its summit, which formed a small area of permanent sheep pasture, it is suitable for tillage. Upper Greensand, … of Bradenstoke also reached agreement over the use of the sheep pasture. They decided that their respective men should have pasture throughout the year for as many sheep as they could keep in winter. 84 All the arable and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… There was pasture for 3 draught beasts, 12 oxen, and 500 sheep. 100 In 15523 East and West Everleigh each had a common … the demesne farm had 9 yardlands of arable and three sheep downs, allowing the flock to be moved according to the … of yardlands in East Everleigh were allowed to pasture 60 sheep, 4 working cattle, and 2 horses for every yardland …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… were full on Sunday and the church empty. 4 The farmers' sheep when pasture was scarce were turned into the neglected …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… churchyard close marked the eastern limit of the Eyford sheep-pastures, 20 and in 1760 an orchard on the east bank, … provision in the parish, 29 and by 1540 two large sheep-houses were evidently the only buildings there. 30 By … land in Eyford, which mostly consisted of c. 1,100 a. of sheep-pasture, and was kept in hand by the abbot for the …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Eynesbury Berkeley 154 and to Eynesbury Cresseners. 155 A sheep fold at Eynesbury for 662 sheep is mentioned in Domesday Book (1086). 156 No other sheep fold appears in the Huntingdonshire Survey. Two mills …