tything

Farmoor Common was an open field within the tything.

The tything trained together for militia duty, a necessity on the frontier.

Historically the Farmoor area was called the tything of Stroud.

Charlton was a tything in the ancient parish, and later civil parish, of Henbury.

The map shows around eleven houses forming the tything or hamlet of Ashton Gifford.

Lawrence Weston was originally a hamlet, a tything of the parish of Henbury.

This examination of the members of the tything before the court is the origin of the phrase "view of frank-pledge".

The manor of Dippenhall was included in the Crondall Hundred and was recognised as a 'tything' at the time.

Historically Redwick was, with Northwick, a tything of the parish of Henbury.

The frith-borh and its corollary, the tything, emerged from the traditional system of mutual accountability originally ensured by the social structure of kinship.

Wards were composed of four tything (residential) blocks and four trust (civic) blocks, arrayed around a central square.

As Atworth was originally a tything of Bradford-on-Avon it has no entry of its own in Domesday.

Each tything was assigned a square mile tract outside town for farming, with each family farmed a forty-five acre plot within that tract.

In 972 Hillesley was recorded as Hildeslei (meaning "clearing belonging to Hild"), a tything of the parish of Hawkesbury.

The part within the ancient parish of Sulhamstead Abbots was a detached part and tything of that parish, and became a separate civil parish in 1866.

The village also incorporates the Tything of Ashton Gifford, a settlement that was cleared to make way for the principle house of the village in the early 19th century.

A tithing or tything was an historic English legal, administrative or territorial unit, originally one tenth of a hundred, and later a subdivision of a manor or civil parish.

It consists of Atworth (formerly a tything of Bradford on Avon), and the parishes of Great and Little Chalfield, plus Cottles.

Tilehurst became an extensive parish, which included the tything of Theale as well as the manors of Tilehurst, Kentwood, Pincents and Beansheaf.

The members of the tything, under the leadership of a tythingman chosen from among them, had the responsibility of producing in the court of justice any man of their number who was summoned.

If they did not swear this oath before the court, the tything would be held responsible for the deeds of the fugitive, and could be forced to pay any fines his actions had incurred.

The new walls cut across existing parts of the city and would have required the demolition of numerous existing buildings that lay in their way; the new defences also cut off the outlying districts of Sidbury, Lowesmoore, Foregate Street and The Tything from the inside of the walled city.

East Harnham, a tything, in the parish of Britford, union of Alderbury, hundred of Cawden and Cadworth, Salisbury and Amesbury, and south divisions of Wilts., 1 mile (S. E. by S.) from the city of Salisbury; containing 411 inhabitants.