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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in 1819. The church was formerly the mother church of Brill and Borstall. A rentcharge of 25 is applied to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… meat and provisions in a part of Somers-Town called the Brill. The parish is under the stipendiary magistrates of the …
The Environs of London
… the pound. Dr. Stukeley's account of a Roman camp at the Brill. At a place called the Brill in this parish were to be seen, a few years ago, some … 1800 years. I do not suppose that the entrenchment at the Brill was thrown up by the Londoners in 1642 (since the name …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… BOARSTALL, which was a member of the royal manor of Brill until 1213, 22 and possibly for a century after. 23 The … part of the manor. 27 Another part of Boarstall held of Brill Manor from 1289 to 1527 28 may perhaps be identified … son of Benet le Vilur tenements in Boarstall, some held of Brill Manor, others of the honour of Wallingford. 48 The …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Parishes Brill BRILL Brunhelle (xi cent.); Breohilla, Brohill (xii cent.); … 13th century gave the alternative name of the forest of Brill to part if not the whole of it, 1 extends over nearly … 600 ft., but elsewhere it rises to 400 ft. At the town of Brill, which was ravaged by the Danes in 914, 4 Edward the …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… cent.). This parish, which lies 3 miles south-east of Brill, contains 2,067 acres. About 404 of these are arable, … by John Croke with the consent of the lords and tenants of Brill and Dorton who had right of pasture there, 6 and were …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… at Dorton Hill. In the west of Dorton, on the borders of Brill, is a chalybeate spring, and a pump room and baths, now … to the value of 200 a year from his estates in Dorton and Brill to each of his step-brothers, Charles, Robert, William, …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… to provide the keeper of Ickford Bridge with an oak from Brill (Brohull) Wood for repairs. 4 The present bridge, which …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Domesday Survey, but was included under the royal manor of Brill 10 (q.v.). Henry I granted the land of Kingsey, …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… farms. Close to it, on the south-west, is a station called Brill and Ludgershall, on the Birmingham section of the Great … Kingswood is included as Crown property in the royalty of Brill. Sharp's Hill Farm, in the extreme north-east of the … evidently emerged later from the Domesday royal manor of Brill (q.v.). Overlordship rights in Ludgershall were …