oxgang

It is named for an oxgang, an ancient Scottish land measure.

As such, the oxgang represented a parallel division of the carucate.

The oxgang represented the amount of land which could be ploughed using one ox, in a single annual season.

There are eight oxen in a plough team, hence the oxgang 30 acres.

From this secular priest, Willigis bought an oxgang of land, which he must have found very convenient.

An oxgang was the related to the amount of land an ox could plough in a year and is roughly equated to 15 acres.

One eyewitness to the Oxgang event described scenes of “blind panic” as parents desperately tried to shelter their children from burning projectiles.

This vagueness comes from an oxgang signifying the land one ox could plough and that varied with the heaviness of the local soil.

Bothlin Burn - At Oxgang in Kirkintilloch.

As land was normally ploughed by a team of eight oxen, an oxgang was thus one eighth the size of a ploughland or carucate.

The town's Strowan Road, which lies between Zetland and Inchyra parks, was closed off at its western end near to Oxgang special needs school.

They usually had a plot of land of between an eighth and a half an oxgang (Hufe); they had few cattle and no more than one horse.

The Domesday Book recorded: "Manor in Crule, Alwin had one oxgang less than six carucates to be taxed."

The areas of ploughland were counted in carucates and oxgangs: one carrucate being eight oxgangs and one oxgang varying from fifteen to twenty acres.

In 1201 Pendlebury was linked to the manor of Shoresworth to the south (described as "one oxgang of land") before Shoreworth became part of Pendleton.

An oxgang is also known as a bovate, from bovata, a medieval Latinisation of the word, derived from the Latin bōs, meaning ox, bullock or cow.

Kirkintilloch High School is six year co-educational secondary school located in the Oxgang area of Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.

She donated an oxgang of farmland near Wellen to the monastery at Leitzkau and later another oxgang near Wolmirsleben.

One attung seems to have been equal to the land area it took to feed an ordinary family (around 12 acres, see Hide (unit), Virgate and Oxgang for English equivalents).

The other informal consultations cover proposals for Meadowburn, Balmuildy, Wester Cleddens, Gartconner, Oxgang, Hillhead and Harestanes Primary Schools.

There are seven Primary schools in Kirkintilloch, which are Hillhead, Harestanes, Oxgang, Gartconner, Lairdsland, St Flannan's and St Agatha's.

In Scotland, 'oxgang' occurs in Oxgangs, a southern suburb of Edinburgh, and in Oxgang, an area of the town of Kirkintilloch.

The establishment was part of the endowment of Cambuskenneth Abbey, and was accompanied by a grant of one oxgang of land (approximately 15 acres), the measurement that lent its name to the area near the church.

In England, the oxgang was a unit typically used in the area conquered by the Vikings which became the Danelaw, for example in Domesday Book, where it is found as a bovata, or 'bovate.'

Like older Scottish land measurements, such as the davoch, quarterland and oxgang, the extent of a township often varies according to the quality of the land it is on, and this can range from a hundred to a few thousand hectares.