Sentence examples for grouping of lands from inspiring English sources

The castle site lay within the Honour of Richmond, a grouping of lands traditionally owned by the Counts of Brittany during the early medieval period, but the land itself was a demesne estate, owned by the Crown.

William granted some lands to his continental followers from the holdings of one or more specific Englishmen; at other times, he granted a compact grouping of lands previously held by many different Englishmen to one Norman follower, often to allow for the consolidation of lands around a strategically placed castle.

Another group of lands was centered on Ludlow in Shropshire.

Despite the grouping of forested lands into ecozones, the land-cover patterns found within a given ecozone are not homogeneous, with descriptions of the vegetation in these zones detailed in Wulder and others (2008a).

Although Messel is famed for its fossil mammals, birds are the most abundant and species-rich group of land vertebrates.

In September 1999, the conservancy and a group of land trusts joined to buy 758 acres of land in Fairfield County, known as Trout Brook Valley, from BHC.

A study commissioned by a group of land owners and developers and the National Association of Counties estimated the cost to the economy of the new permit process at $300 million a year.

The diversity of form within the angiosperms has contributed to their successful colonization of more habitats than any other group of land plants.

Dinosaurs were the dominant group of land animals, especially "duck-billed" dinosaurs (hadrosaurs), such as Shantungosaurus, and horned forms, such as Triceratops.

There is no state shipping agency, save for the Texas Navy (a group of land-lubbers given a gilded certificate by the governor as an official backslap).

A radio director, Mam Sonando, and a group of land-rights activists known as "the Boeung Kak 13" are among those who have been imprisoned over the past two years.