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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Bratton and Orleton townships both extend east of it. 88 In 1882 Wrockwardine civil parish contained 4,762 a. (1,927 ha.), including 515 a. in Wrockwardine Wood and 92 a. of detached moorland north of … Spa (1977; copy in S.P.L., class L 21.6 v.f.). Below, Preston, Econ. Hist. Telford Jnl. 22 Sept. 1978; Shropshire …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… The township, the area here treated, contained 515 a. in 1882. 8 Its eastern and western boundaries followed no … 9 a name suggesting that the wood was cleared back from it in the early Middle Ages. 10 From Watling Street the ground … upon the Weald Moors, and of an adjoining detachment from Preston upon the Weald Moors. 11 In 1898 the civil parish was …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… predate the mid 12th century 62 and there was a priest in 1086. 63 Shrewsbury abbey claimed the church itself as a … (d. 1094). 64 Dependent chapels, referred to generally in two mid 12th-century confirmations of abbey property, 65 … were not mentioned thereafter. The church, valued at £10 in 1291, 66 was appropriated to Shrewsbury abbey in 1333 67 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 975 the southern boundary of Wrockwardine was called the … 74 and the king retained the manor of WROCKWARDINE in 1066. Roger of Montgomery, created earl of Shrewsbury by 1074, was tenant in chief by 1086, and the manor contained 7½ berewicks, 75 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyke - Wyvill Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish, union, and hundred of Axminster, Honiton and … Devon; containing 103 inhabitants. Wyke WYKE, a tything, in the parish of Worplesdon, union of Guildford, First … union of Skirlaugh, Middle division of the wapentake of Holderness, E. riding of York, 5 miles (N. E. by E.) from …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Little Houghton; Milton Malzor; Piddington with Hackleton; Preston Deanery; Quinton; Rothersthorpe; Whiston; Wootton; Yardley Hastings Map of the Hundred In the Northamptonshire geld-roll of c. 1074 Wymersley figures as a hundred and a half; 1 but in the Domesday Survey the western portion (including the …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1713, prebendary of the Deans, Lower Hayne and Penell in the collegiate church of Chumleigh, Devon, 1712; died 16 … one of these names M.P. Ashburton 1705, until his death in 1707. See Foster's Index Eccl. Yarde, Gilbert s. … 1728. See Foster's Index Eccl. Yorke, Martin s. Joh., of Preston, Northants, pleb. Trinity Coll., matric. 6 Dec., …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Economic history Economic history The presence in Yarnton of detached parts of Begbroke parish, 14 and the … once shared a single set of fields. The medieval yardland in Yarnton seems to have comprised c. 25 a. exclusive of meadow and pasture, 15 and in 1617 a 2-yardland estate contained 44 a. of arable. 16 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1,674 a. (677 ha.), was absorbed by Cherhill parish in 1934. 28 The parish boundary is marked by few prominent … In 1377 Sir Baldwin granted the manor for life to Thomas Preston, 89 later for life to John Preston (d. 1411). 90 The reversion passed to his son Sir …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Yeading - Yettington Yeading YEADING, a hamlet, in the parish of Hayes, union of Uxbridge, hundred of … containing 222 inhabitants. Yeadon YEADON, a township, in the parish of Guiseley, Upper division of the wapentake of … of rich loam. The living is a vicarage, with that of Preston annexed, valued in the king's books at 18; net …