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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Derby hills. The manufacture of glass is carried on to some extent, and there is a corn-mill on the river Tern, … commuted for 133, and a rent-charge of 32. 14. is payable to the vicar. The church is a venerable edifice of red stone, … of the Britons, various discoveries having been made of British coins, and of fragments of brass armour and military …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a detached piece of woodland, later a township, belonging to the manor and parish of Wrockwardine, the rest of which lay 7 km. to the west. The township, the area here treated, contained … 1884 the township became a civil parish and was enlarged to 914 a. by the transfer of Hortonwood and part of Trench …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and they defrayed the school's expenses, amounting in 1853 to £45 including the mistress's salary of £35. 69 In 1885 an … and infant school with 93 pupils: seniors transferred to Wellington Senior Council School and boys came from the … prepared destitute girls for domestic service in the colonies. 89 The Royal National Institute for the Blind ran a …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… N.E. of Cirencester) As well as the evidence for Romano-British occupation noted below, isolated finds of Roman … Lower Slaughter (1). b. Sherds of coarse Romano-British, mediaeval and later pottery 2 were found under a … indicated by a spread of broken limestone slabs and of 2nd to 4th-century pottery, including samian, calcitegritted ware …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and there is a glebe of 10 acres. The chapel, dedicated to St. Michael, is a chapel of ease. The inhabitants … The parish is situated on the road from Arundel to Bognor, and intersected by the Arundel and Portsmouth … in the manufacture of flintglass and the finer sorts of British china, is obtained for exportation from some pits on …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… are overlain by the E. bank of a wood. A modern field mile to the E. is known locally as Street Acres. Another … (1) from S.W. (map, p. 25, s.v. Chedworth). (1) Romano-British Settlement (SP 06051390 06151395) in Yanworth Wood … the surface 65 yds. further N.E. Finds, all now lost, said to have been scattered over the area between the two presumed …
A History of the County of Somerset
… roughly triangular in shape, measuring 2.5 km. from north to south at its widest and 3 km. from east to west. The only natural boundary is a feeder of the river … in the parish but what was formerly believed to be a British camp on God's Hill is part of a series of medieval …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Yarnton Church Church The earliest reference to a church in Yarnton is a confirmation, made between 1155 and 1161, of Yarnton chapel to Eynsham abbey. 43 Yarnton was probably a daughter church … from a builder's yard and two were sold in 1914 to the British Museum and to the Victoria and Albert Museum …
A History of the County of Oxford
… route followed by 17th-century perambulations seems not to have been recorded, 44 and in 1811 the muniments at Blenheim and 'early maps' belonging to Sir Henry Dashwood were consulted without success. 45 The … that the site was occupied from the Iron Age to Romano-British times. Despite some fragments of medieval pottery in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… present name was acquired from the removal of the church to the banks of the river Yarrow, about the middle of the … of the Douglas family in 1455, the lands became forfeited to the crown, and part of them were granted to Sir Walter … on the banks of the Gifford water, and of which the Cambro-British Ystrad, now softened into Yester, is faithfully …