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Survey of London
… centred on Wilmington Square, lies between Amwell Street and Farringdon Road to the east and west, and Lloyd Baker Street and Rosebery Avenue to the north and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… ancient parish extended some 2 miles from east to west, and 1 miles from north to south. Its area in 1878 was 1,637 a. and that of the civil parish in 1951 was 2,294 a. 2 The population in 1801 was 99, and it rose slowly to 205 in 1951. There was a corresponding …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a discharged vicarage, united to the rectory of Hockwold, and valued in the king's books at 6. 7. 6. The church is in the decorated and later styles, and consists of a nave and chancel, separated by a handsome …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Wincanton lies in the south-east part of the county and at its centre is the largest town of the district. 81 The … lay within the court of the capital messuage. 66 ROMAN CATHOLICISM Members of the Ewens family were regarded as … were over 60, married couples having preference and Roman Catholics being excluded. The bar on Roman Catholics has …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wincanton - Windy Nook Wincanton (St. Peter and St. Paul) WINCANTON ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… with Winchester in general. 1. St. John's Hospital and the Allied Charities. The history of St. John's Hospital in its religious capacity and after the Dissolution as a charitable institution until … hospital, amounting annually to 1,681 6 s. 7 d. from rents and about 19 from consols, was consolidated with the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… in., north aisle 46 ft. 1 in. by 11 ft. 9 in., south porch and west tower 14 ft. by 13 ft. 5 in. The south wall of the nave and the west tower are the only old parts of the church, the chancel having been rebuilt in 1859 and the north chapel added, and the north transept and aisle …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… chalk down-land. Roman roads approach it from all sides, and the Itchen while navigable brought it into touch with Southampton, and so with the centres of continental trade. The present … borough of Winchester lay within the walls, but the east and west sokes, or suburbs, which entirely surrounded it, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … the exclusiveness of the freemen, no Dissenters or Roman Catholics being able to gain admission. In 1833 one hundred …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the … early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries. 1 During the Saxon period, when Edward … 2 the site of the later castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest …