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A History of the County of Buckingham
… Parishes Bletchley with Fenny Stratford and Water Eaton BLETCHLEY with FENNY STRATFORD and WATER … (xivxvi cent.). Bletchley, which includes the hamlet of Water Eaton and until 188191 also included part of the … trusses, one of which is in a comparatively perfect state and has carved heads at the terminations of the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Boarstall (xvi cent.). Boarstall contains 3,078 acres, of which 6 are water, on a soil of gravel and stiff blue clay and subsoil of Corallian and Oxford Clay. … 330 acres of arable land where wheat, barley and beans are the chief crops, 2,202 of permanent grass, and 186 of woods …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Bolle Brichulle, Bellebrikhulle (xiii cent.). This parish, the northernmost of the three Brickhills, covers about 1,848 acres. Of these only 301 are arable, with wheat, barley and beans the chief crops, 916 permanent grass, and 288 woods …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… covers 917 acres, which are devoted to agriculture, with the exception of about one-sixth. 1 The soil is light clay, the subsoil clay and stone, the chief crops being wheat, oats, barley and …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… parish, which, like Boarstall, lay within Bernwood Forest, and in the 13th century gave the alternative name of the forest of Brill to part if not the whole of it, 1 …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Bruttone, Burwton (xiii cent.). Broughton lies on the edge of the county, bordering Bedfordshire, and covers 936 acres, of which about three-quarters is grass …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… cum Stony Stratford (xvii cent.). This parish lies south of Watling Street with a tributary of the Ouse as its western … grass. 1 The principal crops grown are wheat, oats, beans and barley. The land rises from about 200 to 250 ft. above … Cal. S. P. Dom. 16601, p. 38. Luttrell, Brief Relation of State Affairs (ed. 1857), i, 216. Exch. Dep. Mich. 2 Jas. II, …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Kaveresfeld (xii-xiii cent.); Catesfield (xviii cent.). The parish of Caversfield, although entirely detached, was included in … until the 19 th century, when, by Acts of 1832 1 and 1844, 2 it was transferred to Oxfordshire. A detached …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Chersley (xviixix cent.). Chearsley covers 942 acres, 322 of these being arable land, 476 permanent grass, and 18 woods and plantations. 1 The soil is clay and loam, with a subsoil of clay and …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Chytwood (xvixix cent.). This parish covers 1,171 acres, of which 983 are permanent grass and 138 arable land; there are 14 acres of woods and … priory to Nutley Abbey in 1460. 121 In 1480, owing to the state of decay into which St. Martin's Church had fallen, an …