Terrier
Year 1784
A Terrier - Formerly, a collection of acknowledgments of the vassals or tenants of a lordship, containing the rents and services they owed to the lord, and the like.
A Barton - A farmyard, from Old English beretun, from bere barley + tun stockade
This document replaced the original Terrier, which was destroyed in the great fire of Blandford in 1731. 'In Belchalwell is one small house with a very small barn at the south end of it, under the same roof which stands in a Barton surrounded by a Garden and Orchard containing one acre and 20 poles. There is a small field adjoining containing one acre one quarter and 18 poles, the whole bounded on the west by the street and publick road - on the north by Mr Edwards Barton and on the east by a field belonging to Mr Templeman called Bell-close, and on the south by the garden belonging to the Poor's Houses.
The Rector has also fifty Sheeps Leazes on the Hill.
There is no modus, custom or prescription for Tythes.
The Rector pays two shillings and two pence to the Poor's rate, and the Land Tax at four shillings in the pound amounts to six pounds and eight pence.
The Rector has a road for a cart or wagon from the Parsonage Barton to Lower Fifehead through a field called Lowbrook belonging now to Mr Robert Pope, and through two other fields called Lye belonging to Mr Haines, and through Kitford Drove belonging to Mr Thomas Sermon, and then through the field to Kitford House and through the Barton of that House into the lane called Ridge Lane.' Source: Eric Piggot |
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