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village and land
This meant that the land around a village was rented from a landlord.
Each family would then have two or three small pieces of land scattered about the village, which they used to grow crops.
This village was deserted in 1855 when the tenants were evicted by the local landlord so the land could be used for cattle grazing, the tenants were forced to rent holdings in Currane, Dooega and Slievemore.
In 1835, the Albion Company, a land development company formed by Jesse Crowell, platted a village and Peabody's wife was asked to name the settlement.
The settlement extinguished Alaska Native claims to the land by transferring titles to twelve Alaska Native regional corporations and over 200 local village corporations.
The land and money were divided among regional, urban, and village corporations.
* Native claims to almost all of Alaska were extinguished in exchange for approximately one-ninth of the state's land plus $ 962. 5 million in compensation distributed to 200 local village and 12 Native-owned regional corporations, plus a thirteenth corporation comprising Alaska Natives who had left the state.
* The surface rights to the patented land were granted to the village corporations and the subsurface right to the land were granted to the regional corporation, creating a " split estate "
Balsall Heath was agricultural land between Moseley village and the city of Birmingham until the 1850s when expansion along Moseley Road joined the two.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 6. 37 %) is water.
Dartmouth College was established in 1769 beside the Common at a village called the Plain — an extensive and level tract of land a mile ( 1. 6 kilometers ) from the Connecticut River, and about 150 feet ( 46 meters ) above it.
* Harwich also contains the largest lake on the Cape, called Long Pond, which serves as a private airport for planes with the ability to land on water which is in the village of Pleasant Lake.
Mande society was organize around the village and land.
All the land turned over to the peasants was owned collectively by the mir, the village community, which divided the land among the peasants and supervised the various holdings.
The size of the settlement varies, generally with the volume of water available for household use and with the amount of land accessible to village dwellers.
Joan's parents owned about 50 acres ( 20 hectares ) of land and her father supplemented his farming work with a minor position as a village official, collecting taxes and heading the local watch.
In a letter to Vera Zasulich dated 8 March 1881, Marx contemplated the possibility of Russia's bypassing the capitalist stage of development and building communism on the basis of the common ownership of land characteristic of the village mir.
Zygmunt Gloger in his work Historical geography of land of ancient Poland ( Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski ) states that according to a Polish custom, whenever a new village was formed next to an older one, the name of the new entity was presented with an adjective little ( or lesser ), while the old village was described as greater.
Rotterdam was inaccessible because of ice, and they were forced to land at the small village of Ter Heijde, and walk through the frosty countryside until met by coaches to take them to Huis Honselaarsdijk.
The Chiefs of Mutalau village allowed Peniamina to land and assigned over 60 warriors to protect him day and night at the fort in Fupiu.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of, all land.
In actuality, the village committee owns the land and contracts the right to use this land to individual farmers who may use the land to make money from agriculture.

village and was
In China it was a baby sitting on a railroad platform, smudged, blood-specked, with the village burning about him and shells exploding.
After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.
This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.
Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.
His first move was to send Hino to the village to spend a few days.
In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked, telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning.
When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.
His father Soeren was the village apothecary whose slender income made it difficult to feed his family, let alone educate them in a town without even a school.
They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village ; ;
In the morning the fog was still thick so that to go to the village I crept along with my headlights full on.
The village was completely abandoned which is where the name ' Deserted Village ' came from.
It was during his early trips to Achill prior to the outbreak of World War I that Henri painted extensively and is reputed to have done portraits of almost all the children in Dooagh village.
Due to the crowded nature of Rome at the time, Octavius was taken to his father's home village at Velletri to be raised.
Alfred Wallace was born in the Welsh village of Llanbadoc, near Usk, Monmouthshire.
Finally a deal was reached in 1881 and the Ainu decided to settle in the village of Yavin.
Another village, Golygino was founded later.
In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.
The child was born at Treveri, near the village of Ambitarvium, just before the junction of the Moselle River and the Rhine River ( modern Koblenz Germany ).

village and enclosed
The French right rested on the village of Blenheim near where the Nebel flows into the Danube ; the village itself was surrounded by hedges, fences, enclosed gardens, and meadows.
' Peckham ' is a Saxon place name meaning the village of the River Peck, a small stream that ran through the district until it was enclosed in 1823.
The village pub The Red Lion claims to be the only pub in the world to be enclosed by a stone circle.
In order to prevent cattle trampling flat the gardens attached to the houses, village roads were enclosed with wooden fences and, later, with characteristic stone walls.
Open farmland close to a village with a railroad line was enclosed with barbed wire and divided into 10-20 camps each housing 5, 000 to 10, 000 men.
About to the southeast of the village is Castle Hill, a site is marked on old maps as a “ supposed Saxon encampment ” The site occupies a rocky ridge at the head of a high escarpment partially enclosed by ring work.
The village name ' Weston ' is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means ' western estate ' or western homestead as ' tun ' means an enclosed farm in Angle.
There had been enclosures in the 15th and 16th centuries, but towards the end of the 18th century the last remaining common land, approximately 2000 acres ( 8 km² ), was enclosed and divided among the principal commoners of the village.
Along with Finnish, Skolt Sami and Northern Sami, Inari Sámi is one of the four official languages in the municipality of Inari, in particular in the following villages located on the shore of Lake Inari ( the Inari Sámi name for the village is enclosed in parentheses ):
Waring subsequently built Dunstan House, to the north of Thatcham village, and enclosed a large park around it, planted with trees arranged in the troop positions in the battles in which he had fought.
However, there were nearby squatter settlements of illegal immigrants in the neighbouring Kayu Ara village which is enclosed by Bandar Utama and Damansara Utama.
Many of the dykes were enclosed into pipelines during the 1960s and 1970s as flooding had traditionally been a problem in the lower part of the village.
Much of the character and charm of the seafront houses has been lost as a result, although on the narrow village streets in the heart of Gżira one can still find examples of traditional Maltese facades, with their enclosed wooden balconies ( gallarija ) and bow-fronted, wrought-iron balconies.
The village land consists of eighteen fields of enclosed and open land, most of it being owned by the king ( and is now national property ).
However, development in the village suffered greatly when Henry VIII acquired most of the lands and enclosed them within the deer Chase in the Honour of Hampton Court.
In 1222 the manor of Dodford was acquired by William de Keynes who enclosed much of the land including a deer park which lay to the south of the village between it and what is now the A45 between Daventry and Weedon.
It was a wooden and earthen fortress which enclosed the stone church and other buildings located on the highest ground in the village, once known as " Stone Ridge ".
Repton removed the old Toll road ( the original Roman road ) and dropped it to its present position ( A50 ), removing the village and creating a more enclosed entrance to the estate and pleasure gardens.
The area enclosed by Townend Farm and Archdeacon Newton's approach road to the west, Newton Lane to the north, and Hall Farm to the south contains the site of a medieval abandoned village, with visible earthworks in pasture at the northern end and farm buildings at the southern end of the site: this is a scheduled monument.
Land in the area was granted to John Drummond who established the village ; building a bawn ( an enclosed, fortified farmyard, designed as a place of refuge for settlers in case of attack ), 10 wicker-work houses, and a watermill for grinding corn.
The name of the village of Lickey is thought to have derived from ' leac ' ( a clearing ) and ' hey ' ( an enclosed space ), perhaps referring to a clearing in the forest.
The village of Guyzance has existed since at least since 1242, and was enclosed in 1685.

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