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A History of the County of Oxford
… between the villages of Hampton Gay and Hampton Poyle. 96 Sheep-rearing may well have been generally important here, as … abbot, who had rights of common in Hampton Poyle for 200 sheep. 97 Some meadow-land was assigned by lot annually; but … there had been some conversion of arable land into sheep and cattle pasture. Two men were accused in 1517 of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and freeholders were stinted at 1 horse, 2 cattle, and 4 sheep on the new common for each yardland held. 143 Small … and no more than 200 a. in the 1930s. Cows, other cattle, sheep, and pigs were all kept. 167 Bishoper, Hankerton Field, … of furze to be cut, turf dug, and geese, cattle, and sheep kept on the commons. 198 After inclosure in 1809 199 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 134 Although most farmers kept a few cattle, pigs, and sheep, arable farming was their mainstay. In the selection of … the machine which Wyatt used for slicing swedes for sheep fodder; he commented also on this introduction of … that he kept a woman in the parsonage and that he allowed sheep to pasture in the churchyard. A charge that he refused …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Although the name Hardwick has been taken to signify a sheep farm, 76 there is no other evidence that this branch of … heavy clay soil makes the land unsuitable for extensive sheep-farming. In the 1790s about onethird of the flock of 600 perished of sheep-rot. 77 Arable farming seems to have long been the most …
A History of the County of Oxford
… miles distant. The name Hardwick 5 means in Old English a sheep farm or perhaps a cattle farm, or dwellingplace for … 75 By 1520, however, the house had been rebuilt. 76 Sheep were evidently being kept, for in 1533 William Mortimer of Hardwick made several bequests in sheep 77 and in 1606 Sir Richard Fermor exercised his right …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the way in which the land was cultivated. There were 20 sheep on Walter Giffard's estate in 1086, 326 but no further evidence of sheep-farming has been found until the 16th century. The … one foldage by 1561, 327 and in the later 16th century sheep worth at least 200 marks. 328 A sheep-walk and …
A History of the County of Bedford
… and Ralph recognized his right to common pasture for 460 sheep (of which pasture for 80 was of the gift of the said …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… feathers from his nine peacocks. He kept both cattle and sheep. Harvesting was done by hired labour supplemented by … His flock was expensively kept at a size of 175200 mature sheep by purchases, after the frequent and devastating … again in 1387 267 and expensively restocked. No demesne sheep were kept at Harston, the lord's pastures being fed …
A History of the County of Durham
… and cattle, meat, fat hogs, salmon, lampreys, fleeces, sheep skins, skins of small animals, cloth, linen web, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in the 14th century, 196 but there appear to have been few sheep kept in the parish in the 17th and 18th centuries. The … fields of arable. Hill and Woodside farms had flocks of sheep. In 1637 a several fishery in the Severn belonged to …