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A History of the County of Essex
… in the mid 17th century was generally restricted to land transfers, orders to maintain ditches and highways, and …
A History of the County of Essex
… 19th century. In 1586 there were three parcels of adjacent land called the gardens, c. 15 a. in extent, 'divided with …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Neots road is there almost 240 ft. above O.D. From it the land falls to just under 50 ft. at the N. end, drainage being … to the N.W. The whole lay in a wide strip of unploughed land between old closes showing ridge and furrow. (18) …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… income, 260; patron, the Rev. W. Hurst: an allotment of land, and money payments, were assigned in 1783 in lieu of … which is obtained an extensive prospect both of sea and land, particularly of Bridlington bay and the eastern heights … Strickland, the impropriator, with a net income of 141: land and a money payment were assigned in 1777, in lieu of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… St. Mary's altar in the church, 11for which villagers gave land and service books in the 14th century. 12In 1347 Henry … c. 1475. 17In 1499 a Fen Drayton man left £20 to buy land worth 2 marks yearly to augment the Boxworth chantry … Hunt., 148/2/587; P.R.O., IND 17013, f. 440. Burke, Land. Gent. (1952), 2504; cf. Alum. Cantab. 1752-1900, v. 19; …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… nine ploughteams needed for 9½ ploughlands, Ramsey abbey's land being cultivated perhaps from Elsworth. 81In 1185 the … demesne, and, besides 100 a. of freehold, much customary land. Its villeins included 13 holding probably 10 a. each, … several hundreds of pounds among their children, owned land, if at all, only in other parishes. 92 The rotation of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… stands near a stream flowing north-east. Further south the land rises slowly but steadily to almost 80 m. by the St. … probably once well wooded. The surviving Overhall grove on land sloping down to the western brook, though reduced by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 1552. His son and heir John 92(d. 1596) left his Boxworth land to his second wife Elizabeth. 93In 1599 she and her next … 1694-5 to sell the manors and the Cuttses' other Boxworth land to Josiah Bacon, a London merchant, who in 1702 acquired … 7Between 1955 and 1970 most of the Thornhills' Boxworth land was sold, c. 800 a. south of the village being sold in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… lie in the angle between Easton Road and London Road on land sloping E. to a small brook (SP 904590). Here there are … can all be shown to have been established on former arable land. Ridge-and-furrow remains or can be traced on air … of small streams, indicating that the extent of arable land had once been much wider than it was by the early 17th …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… on the other three sides. Boulder Clay covers the higher land in the N. rising to 152 m. above OD, and wide bands of …