Alice and Bert Wainwright (mine hosts), Bob Higgins, Henry Hall, George (Juddy) Hall, Geoff Radford.
1 ‘Cock-pit field’ marked.
The site of a baiting place used for cock fighting during the Post Medieval or Imperial period. The site is marked on an estate map. It was situated 600m south west of Birdingbury.
1 Opposite the former Bell coaching inn – now called Halford Bridge Hotel – is the oldest bowling green in the county and one of the five oldest in the ...
The site of a baiting place, where cock fighting took place during the Post Medieval and Imperial periods. It was situated on Main Street, Halford.
1 In the farmhouse of Fell Mill Farm is what Vivian Bird refers to as a railed cockpit.
2 An alternative suggestion might be that this is a gallery from which ...
The site of a possible baiting place, a railed cockpit used for cock fighting, dating to the Post Medieval period. It is located 700m south east of Roundham Spinney.
1 About half way down the N slope of Bush Hill are three well-defined circles each containing a small central mound with a shallow ditch round it, outside the ditch ...
The site of a baiting place indicated by circular earthwork banks with mounds in the middle. They may have been used for cock fighting during the Post Medieval or Imperial periods. The site is located on Bush Hill, Flecknoe.
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