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  • **[[Green Lowther]] (2,403 feet) ...ndustrial which is dominant. Oats were long the principal crop, along with barley and wheat, potatoes and turnips. In the [[Lower Ward]] market-gardening has
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  • Lincolnshire is an agricultural area, growing large amounts of wheat, barley, sugar beet, and oilseed rape. In South Lincolnshire, where the soil is par ...leur-de-lys) with a yellow border for the "Lincolnshire Yellowbellies" and green and blue for the fields and floods of the county.
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  • ...ut barley and wheat were also raised. Turnips and potatoes were the chief green crops. The higher grounds contain much good pasturage, with heavy flocks o
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  • ...avy clays through to light sands. Crops grown include winter wheat, winter barley, sugar beet, oilseed rape, winter and spring beans and linseed, although sm *[[Saxtead Green Post Mill]]
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  • | publisher = Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. </ref> It contains non-red lithologies, green mudstones, siltstones, fine sandstones and yellow sandstones. There is a fo
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  • The name "Berwick" is from the Old English language: ''Berewic'' means "barley (bere) farmstead". The word "North" was applied to distinguish this Berwick The "Auld Kirk Green" at the harbour was used for gatherings by the accused in the North Berwick
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  • ...blisher=Plymouth City Council|accessdate=2009-02-17}}</ref> Other sizeable green spaces include Victoria Park, Freedom Fields Park, Alexandra Park, Devonpor ...as and Europe during the latter half of the 19th century was maize, wheat, barley, sugar cane, guano, sodium nitrate and phosphate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http:/
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  • Chiswick can be remarkably green. The suburban roads are tree-lined and a good deal of open space remains i *Chiswick Green is a small park by Turnham Green Station
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  • ...There were also houses at Little Ealing, Ealing Dean, Haven Green, Drayton Green and Castlebar Hill. The parish of Ealing grew wheat, but also barley and rye, with considerable pasture for cows, draught animals, sheep and rec
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  • ...was demolished in the mid-1960s. A Primitive Methodist chapel was built at Green End in 1855.<ref name=brithist/> ...17th centuries, Gamlingay grew to the east towards Dutter End and west to Green End. By 1801, Gamlingay had a population twice as large as that of the hund
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  • ...n and, until the later 16th century, a centre for processing locally grown barley into malt. *[http://greenpresteigne.wikispaces.com/ Green Presteigne Wiki]
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  • ...nham</ref> and further artefacts have been found, particularly at sites in Green Lane and near the Bourne spring in Farnham Park. A significant number of Br ...her occupation material has been discovered at various sites, particularly Green Lane.
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  • ...a few cattle and were able to grow a limited amount of food crops such as barley and potatoes on the better-drained land in Village Bay, and in many ways th ...of [[Colonsay]] raided Hirta in 1615, removing 30 sheep and a quantity of barley.<ref>Fleming (2005) page 28.</ref> Thereafter, the islands developed a repu
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  • |picture caption=Tilford Green and the Tilford Institute [[File:Tilford Barley Mow.JPG|200px|left|thumb|Tilford Green and the Barley Mow]]
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  • ...age.org.uk/the_green_and_crammer_photogalleries.html Devizes Heritage: The Green and Crammer]</ref> some notable churches and a Town Hall. Its development h ...s cloth. Before the Corn Exchange was built in 1857 the trade in wheat and barley was conducted in the open, with sacks piled around the market cross. Today'
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  • |name=Barley |picture=St Margaret of Antioch, Barley, Hertfordshire - geograph.org.uk - 362626.jpg
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  • ...ydd Rhiw and Mynydd y Graig was enclosed by Act of Parliament in 1811, and barley and oats were grown. Manganese was discovered in 1827; donkeys carried the ...s are the haunt of the nuthatch, treecreeper, great spotted woodpecker and green woodpecker. Wood pigeons, stock doves and collared doves also breed in the
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  • ...ill, gas bubbles leaving holes in the structure that were then filled with green agate flecked with red. There are some outcrops of the pre-volcanic Lewisia .../ref> Black cattle were raised for export to the mainland, fish caught and barley and potatoes grown. More unusually, goats were kept by the inhabitants, the
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  • ...al course. On the other hand, the Lea Valley Country Park provides a fine green corridor along the river and its canal. At its lowest end the Lea gives bi ...ations', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green (1998), pp. 88-90]</ref> Evidence of a late Roman settlement at Old Ford, d
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  • ...ed boats is prohibited above 'La Mimosa' Pub (at the upstream end of Jesus Green between 1 April and 30 September, when the middle and upper river are open Jesus Green Lock is on Jesus Green, downstream of Magdalene Bridge, and below this lock and its weir is the Lo
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  • ...April 2010 || [[Isle of Portland]] [{{Flag Institute|Portland}}] || Cream, green and blue for Portland stone, grass and the sea, with a tower and naval crow ...ld]] [{{Flag Institute|Petersfield}}] || The crossed keys of St Peter on a green field
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  • ...t is good for pasturage and cultivation. The corn growing here is oats and barley. The cattle bred here are cows, horses, and sheep. There is a church in thi ...tp://www.greenenergy.uk.com/sitecontent/viewpressrelease.aspx?id=94| title=Green Energy press release|publisher=greenenergy.uk.com | date=26 January 2005| a
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  • | [[Eaton Socon]] || Pightle Millennium Green || Capulet Close <small>PE19 8UQ</small> || {{map|}} || 6.5 | [[Swavesey]] || Swavesey Recreation Green || High Street <small>CB24 4RN</small> || {{map|}} || 6.7
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  • ...h of the land is now urbanised or designated parkland. Its [[Metropolitan Green Belt]] has the Swan Sanctuary and two Sites of Special Scientific Interest, ...hames]] was important for transport from the late 13th century and carried barley, wheat, peas and root vegetables to London's markets; later timber, buildin
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  • ...eveloped new plants, notably potatoes called Maris Piper and Maris Peer, a barley called Maris Otter, and a wheat called Maris Wigeon. These are now in use w ...Council's 2006 Local Plan provided for the release of an extensive area of Green Belt land around Trumpington for new housing and associated community facil
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  • ..., runs for a further 7½ miles in a straight line to the hills at [[Ditton Green]]. ...Soham, and later brought coal when steam engines replaced the water wheel. Barley and timber were other important cargoes. The railway reached Soham in 1879
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  • ...p of Lecale by Alice Stopford Green (1912).<ref>{{cite book| last=Stopford Green| first=Alice| year=1912| title=The Old Irish World| location=Dublin| publis ...erved that the area was almost completely under grain cultivation (largely barley) during the late 18th century and that south Lecale was more fertile than t
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  • ...grains have been found in these excavations. Tests show that most of the barley was dehulled, but that absence of such debris may mean that the cereal was ...rish Council|2007a|p=1}}</ref> and the water fountain on the small village green was installed to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Keyser overs
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  • ...owever, today it is little more than a two-day get-together on the village green. Fair day is on 18 July each year. It remains a popular opportunity for man ...t lots of hard work re-claiming land, drainage work, and liming. Wheat and barley were taken by cart to [[Dalkeith]], [[Peebles]] and [[Melrose]] for the mak
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  • ...e ''Shoreditch Twat'', on the TVGoHome website, and in the sitcom ''Nathan Barley''. This fashionable area centres around Hoxton Square, a small park bordere ...further afield to cheaper districts such as [[London Fields]] or [[Bethnal Green]]. In response, the local council formed a not-for-profit corporation, Shor
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  • St Giles's Church near the village green was designed by the 19th-century architect Samuel Sanders Teulon. His build ...substantial detached homes, for example at Court Gardens, South Sreet and Green Close.
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  • |picture=Green Quarter.jpg ...ere are two bridges at the Staveley end of the valley. The first is called Barley Bridge and includes a dramatic weir. The second straddles the Kent further
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  • ...erences are clearly visible, and the coastal belt. There are predominantly green areas of pasture land and the purple and brown heather moorland. The two ki ...erences are clearly visible, and the coastal belt. There are predominantly green areas of pasture land and the purple and brown heather moorland. The two ki
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  • ...commercial centres are in [[Seacroft]] and [[Cross Gates]]. The Seacroft Green shopping centre contains amongst other shops a large supermarket, and the n The Barley Corn is a historic pub on Main Street, while the former railway station on
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  • The village green was once surrounded with white posts and chains, with a seat in the middle. .... Gleaners from the fields took their grist at harvest to the mill to make barley meal for their home-fed pig. Wheat was [[Flail|frailed]] (flailed) at home
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  • ...layers.<ref name=kar031>KAR031</ref> The Romans noted the quality of the barley and the oysters from Milton and established the town.<ref name=risbridger>R ...Henry VI]] issued in York between 1454 and 1460. The base layer contained green glazed pottery of the 13th–14th century. The extant earthworks are there
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  • ...ide’, from the Old English words ''hlith'', hillside and ''bere-tūn'', barley farm.<ref>A. D. MILLS. "Liberton." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 200 *Charles Edward Green (1866-1920), author of the ''Encyclopaedia of Agriculture''
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  • ...gston |format=PDF |first1=Duncan |last1=Hawkins |first2=Christopher |last2=Green |journal=London Archaeologist |volume=11 |pages=199–203|year=2007 |issue= ...es was common land, and only 1 acre woodland. The crops were mainly wheat, barley and oats. with some flax, potatoes, turnips and mangel wurzels. Livestock i
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  • ...n Bridge Street; and cloth, flannel, woollen socks, lace, wheat, oats, and barley outside the Market House. There were special livestock fairs held at differ * The Green is the home of Ballinrobe Town Football Club and Ballinrobe Rugby Club.
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  • '''Barley''' could be: *[[Barley, Lancashire]]
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  • ...urce is at the north, two and a half miles from the village, near Bishop's Green. High Easter is part of 'The Easters', an area adjacent to [[The Rodings]]. ...tory'', the parish land was of clay soil and grew chiefly wheat, beans and barley, and supported a population of 690 in 1891. The lady of the manor was Queen
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  • ...hin a wholly arable framework, with rotations which include oilseed rapes, barley, potatoes, springreens, salad onions and some maize corn across the high, l ...their individual copyhold ribbons of ground. It lies backing the village Green and public house. There was another comparable area off Low Street Lane, k
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  • ...ife, Constance, was the daughter and heir to the earlier patron, Sir Henry Green. After the death of Constance in c.1474, the guardians of her surviving chi ...es to the church from the rest of the parish, and was expected from wheat, barley and oats as the tenth sheaf, peas produced on one tenth of ridges, hay to t
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  • ...in the ecclesiastical parish. Crops grown at the time were chiefly wheat, barley and beans, on a heavy soil with a clay subsoil.<ref name=Whites1848/><ref n ...b-postmaster at the Post Office, a shopkeeper and a beer retailer at Birds Green, and a photographic enlarger & artist at Highhams. Listed in 1914 was the s
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  • ...ancient parish is mostly in [[Ongar Hundred]], but the area around [[Birds Green]] in the south-east lies within [[Dunmow Hundred]]. ...e had one principal landowner. Crops grown at the time were chiefly wheat, barley and beans, on a heavy soil with a clay subsoil. There was a land area of 1,
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  • ...tion of the Celtic ''penn'' meaning hill, the Old English ''bere'' meaning barley plus the Old English suffix of ''-ton'' meaning a farm or settlement.<ref>{ ...uarried. At Newtown were cotton mills and iron works. A well at Lamberhead Green (Pingate) was noted for its excellent water quality.
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  • ...soil is clayey, but in some parts rich, producing good crops of wheat and barley. The prevailing timber is oak and pine. The road from Torrington to [[Holsw The local pub is the ''Green Dragon''
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  • ...ns of Barking Abbey now form part of a public open space known as '''Abbey Green'''.<ref name="AG" /> It is recognisable for its partially restored Grade-II ...ureArtsAndLibraries/Parksandcountryside/Pages/AbbeyGreen.aspx |title=Abbey Green, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Leisure Arts and Libraries: Parks
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  • The fertile red soil produced excellent wheat, barley and apples, which were the main crops. An orchard covered the rear grounds ...at the prominent stilted building in the centre of the village next to the green, built in 1763 in the local style of the time. Four grocers, two saddlers,
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  • There is now one village public house: The Green Man, The Ropsley Fox closed down in 2012. Previous pubs included The Peacoc ...d for livestock; it is almost all arable farmland, growing crops including barley and oil seed rape.
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  • ...by the Angles and could indicate the scarcity of firewood at the time.<ref>Green C, 'Broadland fords and causeways', 1961, ''Norfolk Archaeology'' number 32 ...ssingham]] suggest that the main agriculture in the vicinity was about 50% Barley, 20% Legumes, 15% Wheat and the remaining 15% was Rye, Oats and mixed grain
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  • ...emary Lockie (2003): Upton Bishop, with Crow Hill, Upton Crews, and Phocle Green.</ref> The soil is a red loam; subsoil, clay and rock; chief produce, wheat, barley, roots, &c.
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  • ...ribed a parish land of sand and clay, with a clay subsoil, on which wheat, barley and turnips were grown, and with pasture. Parish area was 3,550 acres, supp The Bowling club maintains a Bowling Green on Church Street.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/VenueDe
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  • |picture=The Green Bledington.jpg |picture caption=The green at Bledington
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  • ...ot of Sutton Hill a brook rises nearby and flows past Lye Hole and Cowslip Green to join the [[Congresbury Yeo|River Yeo]] near Perry Bridge on the A38, the ...10 or 1911, the houses for the estate workers of Mr Henry Herbert Wills of Barley Wood, who had purchased much of the Wrington Estate on the death of the Fou
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  • The name of the village is Old English and means either 'farm village' or 'barley village'. ...rom village life as well as typical symbolism from that period such as the Green Man and the unicorn, a symbol of eternal life. There are also religious ob
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  • ...Horn Inn, Green Tree Inn and Crown Inn on High Street, and the Bird in the Barley on Northfield Road (A159).
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  • ...well as herding cattle and sheep. There is also evidence of cultivation of barley and wheat. The fort appears to have been abandoned by the late Iron Age, th ...a beech tree which had a poem carved into it by Joseph Tubb of Warborough Green in 1844–45, but the tree died in the 1990s and collapsed in 2012. There
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  • ...men of the parish killed in the First World War was erected on the village green in 1920.<ref name=Kellys1933>''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire'' 1933, p. ...mland now dominates the surrounding countryside. The main crops are wheat, barley and potatoes. Sheep, horses and pigs are also raised in the village. Wildli
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  • ...r an Act of 1762–3 and on its excellent soil were raised crops of wheat, barley, potatoes and beans.<ref>"Stone Parish" in ''A History of the County of Wor ...the grave of the racing driver Peter Collins, who came from nearby Mustow Green.
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  • ...arish area as 3,227 acres with principal agricultural production of wheat, barley, oats, beans, turnips, and seeds. The population in 1881 was 941. Chief lan ...e of former Village Cross now War Memorial}}</ref> situated on the village green,<ref name=Cox/> an 1864 tower mill,<ref>{{NHLE|1168949|The Old Mill}}</ref>
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  • ...ns at the time were twelve farmers, publicans at the Nags Head and Bowling Green public houses, two shopkeepers, a grocer & draper, a wheelwright and a shoe ...hopkeepers, one of whom ran the post office, and a publican at the Bowling Green public house. There was a bus service between the village and Sleaford. No
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  • ...bed as heavy loam with a subsoil of white clay, on which were grown wheat, barley, seeds and turnips. Parish population in 1881 was 98. Moorby occupations in ...Harvest Supper, which residents of Wilksby also attend) or on the village green, a small grassy area on the site of an old farmyard, probably owned by the
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  • ...demesne in [[County Dublin]], in the north of the county at [[Santry]]: a green lung at the edge of the conurbation. ...Italian walnut, Lebanon cedar, Horse chestnut, Sweet chestnut, Beech, Ever green Oak, and Chinese Pines.
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  • |picture=Barley Mow, Wingerworth 194070.jpg |picture caption=Barley Mow pub at Wingerworth
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  • ...ding Lapwing, Curlew, Grey Partridge and Skylark. There is a small village green near the village shop where the village post box is cited. There are some 5 Sown cereals are mainly autumn and spring sown barley, wheat, maize and oilseed rape. Other large contributors to local agricultu
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  • ...anan family since 1765. The farm is of 700 acres and grows carrots, wheat, barley and sugar beet. There are 100 acres of managed woodland. ...here on the estate, bird life includes little owls, kingfishers, kestrels, green woodpeckers, hobbies, robins, wrens and long-tailed tits. hedgehogs, red fo
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  • ...whose estates were forfeited to Oliver Cromwell's forces. Ballihagornagh (Barley Hill) had belonged to John Marrigoe, who had a similar history, and most of ...ilbegg, to be called Stoney Furlong, 54 acres—Maulmurreene, to be called Green Furlong, 34 acres 2 roods— Knockrudeene (part) to be called Narrow Furlon
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  • ...s probably from old Welsh, possibly ''penn heddioc'', meaning 'head of the barley field.<ref>{{harvnb|Watts|2004|p=466}}</ref> ...ar Pendock Cross(roads), and Upper Pendock containing the hamlet of Sledge Green and the old parish church (see below); the parish of Berrow cuts between th
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  • ...The soil is sandy loam, and the subsoil gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, clover, mangold-wurzel, peas, and beans."<ref name=vch/>}} ...The village is for most purposes a residential, somewhat inseparable, very green-buffered part of [[Shepperton]].
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  • ...Windmill Estate, at the back of The Mount, and down Headley Hill Road and Barley Mow Hill.<ref>{{cite web|title=All Tanked Up: Headley Village in the War|ur ...der and butterfly species, including the silver-studded blue, grayling and green hairstreak.
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  • The heart of the village stands about a green with a duck pond, surrounded by thatched houses. ...ce, a butcher, a cake shop, and others. There are three public houses, the Barley Mow, The Fox (on the B3400) and The Beach Arms. A coffee shop was an additi
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  • ...t below 300 ft above sea level, that contour passing through Little London Green. At one time the village was owned by the dukes of Marlborough. ...sheep, herds of cattle and pigs, small areas of meadow, and open fields of barley and oats (and possibly some wheat).
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  • |picture caption=A ford at Barton, near the village green. ...is derived from the Old English phrase ''bere-tūn'', initially meaning ''barley farm'', but later came to mean a ''demesne farm or outlying grange''.<ref>{
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  • ...are uncertain but the first element is the Old English ''bere'', meaning 'barley'. 'Combe' is usually a gentle valley, but the Domesday Book name as a diffe ...|Red Clover (''Trifolium pratense)". It is also famous for its display of Green-Winged orchids. More recently the churchyard has been split in two and dama
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  • ...7–28}}</ref> These defences, originally consisting of turf ramparts on a green wood foundation, were built by the Ninth Legion between AD 71 and 74. Later ...pelt wheat was the most common cereal grain used at that time, followed by barley.<ref name=RomanYorkshire1 /> Cattle, sheep/goat and pig are the major sourc
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  • ...s well as the Berwickshire Marine Reserve. On the green panel is an ear of barley representing local agriculture and also a possible origin of the name Berwi *Green 356
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