in shape but as a result of inclosure in 1798 was extended south-west and south into Sedgemoor and south-east to Nythe in Ashcott . 10 Thereafter it measured roughly 3.25 km. from north to south and 2 km. from east
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Land in the Nythe at the northern end of the parish, and elsewhere, was by this time held by a syndicate of tenants and known as the Great Bargain. The property included meadow land at the Nythe and other lands
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Poldens. 1 It lies 7 km. south-west of Glastonbury and includes Ashcott village and the hamlets of Pedwell , Nythe , Buscott , Berhill , and Ashcott Heath . It is irregular in shape, with projections into the peat moors
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a farmer at Greylake kept 100 geese for their feathers before 1676 and c . 200 were driven away to Nythe in Greinton in 1681 . 1 By 1691 56 a. of arable had been turned into meadow or pasture.
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