Collection Context
| | | | | 11 - Transcript (dated 1714) of final concord relating to the manor of East and West Compton, 23 messuages, seven cottages, 23 gardens, 23 orchards, 1200 a. land, 100 a. meadow, 100 a. pasture, 80 a. wood, 300 a. furze, all in East and West Compton, Tilehurst, 'Cokelbury', Shinfield and Hampstead Norreys, 1674. |
| | | | | 12 - Lease for a year (release missing) of two closes or enclosed meadow or pasture grounds called the Upper Down and the Lower Down in Didcot; 2 a. in the Marsh Lands, Harwell, adjoining the Didcot Down on the north and a quickset mound hedge on the south; a moiety of one seventh part of a meadow called Honey Leaze in Whitley, Reading (53 a.), with common of pasture for 19 cows and one bull in the same meadow; a messuage, barns, stables, outhouses, backsides and garden called Home Close (8 a.), excluding a small part of the premises which has been sold to the Commissioners of the Newbury Turnpike; with a close of ground (1 1/2 a.) nearby; a close of arable land called the Ten Acres Close (10 a.), the Nine Acres Close (9 a., less part sold to the aforesaid Commissioners), Pyle Field (18 a.), and the Hides Close (7 a.); three meadows adjoining together called Clapper Meadows (25 a.); all in the tithing of Calcot, Tilehurst; a close of arable land called Pyle Field (20 a.); 6 a. meadow ground called Rushy Leaze (a further 5 a. of the same having been sold to the aforesaid Commissioners); the latter crop of 1/2 a. in Rushy Leaze; all in Tilehurst and now known as Honey End Farm; 2 a. land in a common field called Sandam and two closes called Youngs (5 1/2 a.), known as Youngs Living, Tilehurst; moiety of a messuage and land (described) called Sheepwaies (later Dearls and then Snells), Honey End Lane, Calcot, Tilehurst; moiety of several closes (30 a.), one called Barn Close, lying around Dearls Coppice, bounded on all sides by Honey End Lane and Piggs Green Common; moiety of five closes (20 a.) reaching from Piggs Green Common to the king's highway leading from Reading to Theale; moiety of 1 a. meadow ground in Langley Mead; moiety of a little meadow (3 a.) adjoining Clapper Meads; moiety of Dearls Coppice (8), Tilehurst; and a moiety of a messuage and farm in Northcott, Tilehurst (lands described), adjoining Pangbourne Road.) |
| | | | | 28 - Counterpart lease for 21 years of a range of buildings lately used as the Reading St Giles parish workhouse, with gates, gateways, yards, buildings lately used as a watch-house, lock-up shop, workshop, coal pen and piggery, on the west side of Horn Street, Reading, adjoining the parish burial ground on the north. |
| | | | | 32 - Lease for a year (release missing) of a brick and tiled messuage with a factory (formerly a coach house), stables, and a large garden; a slip of ground adjoining the same, extending from Katesgrove Lane to the River Kennet; a factory in Katesgrove Lane on the bank of the Kennet, comprising a brick and tiled dwelling house, a long range of weaving shops, storehouses, dressing shops, bulk house, sheds, stables, drying rooms, and garden; all in or near Katesgrove Lane, Reading. |
| | | | | 61 - Lease and release of a mansion house and mills at Sutton Courtenay, with the banks, weirs, pools, vivaries, waters, wtaercourses, locks, floodgates, buildings, etc appertaining to the same, the piscary and liberty of fishing there, and several parcels of land (4 a.), all in Sutton Courtenay. |
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