North Wootton is a village south east of Wells and south west of Shepton Mallet in Somerset.
Tithe Award no. 211/2
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A furlong in the common south field recorded in a modern survey with no date or source, but as not dated would appear from the methodology to be nineteenth century.
The adjoining fields include Foxley, Willedon (Willow Field).
D Hall, R. Harding & P. Martin, Naseby Parish Survey 1976 CBA Group 9 Newsletter 10 (1980)
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The location appears to be on the south bank of the Thames between East and West Molesey. Baker wrote: “To the west of the cricket field the land opens out, and we now have the choice of continuing along the gravelled towpath close to the river or treading the soft, green, meadow turf. This long, narrow field between the towpath and the old racecourse was another of Mr Hurlock’s gifts to the district. It was presented in December 1946, ‘to preserve the picturesque nature of this part of the River Thames and to prevent bungalows and similar structures being built on it’. On a manorial map of Molesey dated 1781 this meadow is called ‘More Hampton Shott’. The other meadows between here and Hurst Road, which were later incorporated into the racecourse, also had interesting names, such as: ‘Beggars Bush’, ‘Broomhill’, ‘Broom Shott’ and ‘Pink Hill’.” Read the rest of this entry »
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It was reported in the Welshman 9th November 1905 as part of the historical records of the Pembrokeshire (Castlemartin) Imperial Yeomanry that on August 14th, 1848, the Royal yacht arrived at Milford Haven, and Prince Albert, “after paying a flying visit to the Dockyard, journeyed over on horseback to see Pembroke Castle. The Prince rode down Bush Hill as far as the Beggars’ Bush, where a fine view of the old Castle can be obtained.”
This is likely to the location recorded as a WW2 Gun Emplacement, at Thornton Road.
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Litton is a small village parish between Chewton Mendip and West Harptree in the Mendip Hills, Somerset.
Tithe Award 1993, no.388
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Iron-Acton is a village and a parish north-west of Yate and Chipping Sodbury
Tithe Award 1993, no.39
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High Ercall, also known in the past as Ercall Magna, is a village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin.
Foxall, H.D.G., A Gazetteer of Street Road and Place Names, Salop County Council (1967)
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Hexton is a village west of Hitchin.
Field, J. English Field-Names; A Dictionary, Newton Abbott, 1993, p.17.
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Phil Quinn says that this site adjoins that at South Brent, which he suggests may have allowed vagrants to avoid apprehension by law enforcement authorities by crossing the parish boundary.
Tithe Award, no.413 and no.414
Phil Quinn
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Charlbury is a village north west of Oxford.
Field, J., English Field-Names; A Dictionary, Newton Abbott, 1993, p.17
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