Westbury-sub-Mendip is a small village on the southern slopes of the Mendip Hills between Wells and Cheddar Gorge.
Bishop John of Tours may have enclosed an area of moor in the early 12th century later called Gooseland.
Tithe Award, nos 234/253/255-6
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West Harptree is a small village in the Chew Valley, Somerset on the edge of the Mendip Hills.
Tithe Award 1993, no305
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Now pasture land in part of the old Open Field area of Upper Weare.
Tithe Award, no.294.
Michael Costen
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The village is now known as Brent Knoll from the prominent hill.
See also East Brent, Somerset nearby
South Brent, Devon is different.
Tithe Award 1993, nos. 87-92
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Somerset Historic Environment Record includes two entries for sites adjacent to Beggars Bush Copse, which is shown on the OS and 1946 as a trapezoidal copse, perhaps the remnant of a larger area. Entry 12557 refers to evidence of medieval ridge and furrow cultivation preserved in the copse. This is on the north east edge of the village, on the southern edge of Shapwick Heath, between Burcott Lane and the remnant of a track. Entry 16213 refers to an unidentified mound to the south of the track. Read the rest of this entry »
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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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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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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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Tithe Award, t674.
Personal Communication Prof. Michael Costen
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The field is a small part of Six Acres on the edge of Banner Down, one of the parish commons, on an exposed ridge.
Recorded as a “present name” for a field recorded in the 1840 Tithe Survey as Porters Bush (No.24). The chart refers to “other references 1755”, but that is presumably the older name, and no references are given. The earlier name is presumably personal, and if there is no record before the Tithe Survey this would be late example of the adoption of Beggars Bush. Read the rest of this entry »
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