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A Dictionary of London
… derived from the plant, which readily springs up on waste land and may have grown over and about the City Wall in early …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the alms-house was exchanged by the trustees for ½ a. land at Woolaston Common belonging to Col. P. S. Marling in 1904, 21 who conveyed it and neighbouring land for the enlargement of the graveyard. 22 A sum of 4 d. was distributed for the relief of the poor c. 1547 from land left for obits. 23 Richard and Margaret Clayton gave an …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… HISTORY: Agriculture. In 1086 there was no demesne land in either Woolaston manor or Aluredston, though the king … clearings called 'rydings' in addition to their arable land. 17 The abbey itself was paying a small annual rent in 1535 to the lordship of Striguil for land at Ashwell and the Roads Grove, part of Oakhill Wood, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of £50, voluntary contributions, and rent from charity land. 7 Apart from the National school, then reduced to 20 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The area included Madgett, a detached piece of cultivated land on Tidenham Chase, and a long, narrow neck of land extending to the steep valley of the River Wye opposite … a., was transferred to Tidenham. 2 In 1935 the strip of land between the River Wye and the road from St. Briavels to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the Earl Marshal made by the abbey before 1282, 34 and the land inclosed from the arable called 'Hathoneshall' in 1291. … Richard de Clare confirmed the gift c. 1150, 46 but the land was soon afterwards granted by Llanthony to Tintern … of the Tintern Abbey estate, for, unlike all the other land in the parish that had belonged to the abbey, it was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… to the south of the village was occupied by the arable land, less than a third of the parish, divided by the 16th … the area known as Martland in the south-west, and land known as Sog and Waterpit implies that even this … from 1617 in two moieties 20 and by 1662 most of the land was let to tenants though the pym family retained the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 121012, when Roger de Wolbedinge held a carucate of land in Woolbeding by the old-established serjeanty of 'being … Roger's widow Cecily paid 40 marks for the custody of his land and heir. 9 Ralph de Wolbedinge held the serjeanty in … sold 1 mark rent to Gilbert de Basevile and 24 acres of land to the Prioress of Easebourne. 10 This was later …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… to 600 ft., is a stratum of Gault Clay; further N.W. the land is Kimmeridge Clay, partly covered by an area of Plateau … 1791 (Map of Woolland, D.C.R.O.) and 160 acres of enclosed land is recorded in 1560 ( S. & D., N. & Q., vol. 19 (19279), …