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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… There were common heaths and rough grazings and common fields of permanent tillage and permanent grass, but most of … a supply of straw, fodder, and food for consumption on the farm and for the restoration of grassland depleted by the … were similar to the Chalk Country. 7 Small inclosed fields well suited the Cheese and Butter countries, where the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… area had already lost whatever open fields and common pastures it had possessed. So, too, had the … to inclosure in an area where the cost of new farm roads on wet deep soil had made it slow. 7 Activity, … example). Even so, there were nearly 4,000 acres of open fields and as much common pasture left. Nineteen more awards …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in 1870 there were 83,475, in 1954 there were 217,950. The farm horse has, of course, become a rarity in that time. 8 … of both horse and human labour, bad and insufficient farm buildings, and the lack of any compensation for … income seems to have formed only 20 per cent. of the net farm product, while the landlord took 45 per cent. In other …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the ancient seat of the Sherburne family, and of the farm, on moderate terms, from the late Thomas Weld, Esq.; and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and West Holcombe, possibly a settlement around Durborough Farm at the head of the valley, was named in the 15th … the valley in 1833. 13 By the 20th century only Durborough Farm and two cottages, one probably medieval, the other with 16th-century origins, survived. 14 Durborough Farm is a Tshaped house in which the short central arm …
A History of the County of Somerset
… was reduced to a landless cottage while Postridge farm included land in Charlinch and amounted to over 200 a. Lower Aisholt farm was then 180 a. and Higher Aisholt 110 a. 89 A further 9 … 92 By 1919 farms had been further amalgamated; one old farm house was used for storage and a cottage as a fowl …
A History of the County of Somerset
… merging with it by the 18th century. 61 In 1920 Postridge farm was sold by E. A. V. Stanley to Somerset county council, the owner in 1986. 62 Postridge Farm has a double-pile plan incorporating a south range of … Postridge in 1833 but the land had been added to Postridge farm. 71 The house had gone by 1887. 72 The house at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 16,833. Beauchamp's Court, the ancient manor-house, now a farm, about a mile and a half distant, gives the title of …
Survey of London
… 38 probably including Mr. (?William) Marlow of Leicester Fields, who had been asked to paint large pictures to be set … or without the payment to Copland and his heirs of a fee-farm rent of between 20 and 40 at the option of the … and Copland, as proprietor of chambers and of the fee-farm rents charged on some of the other chambers, of the …