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A History of the County of Sussex
… Wiston WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south … of the present one, which is a successor to Buncton hamlet. Like Steyning and Washington, Wiston is very varied … road from Buncton crossways to Ashington. 41 A straggling hamlet north and north-west of Buncton chapel, known in 1978 …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Wigston, Wiston WIGSTON, WISTON. In Wiseton of the kings Soc of Oswaldebek belonging to Maunsfeild also, was one car. for … Thomas Draper. [Throsby] Wiseton Wiseton, Is a small hamlet in the parish of Claworth. The land here is about 1040 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of … founder of the Norrisian professorship of Cambridge. The hamlet of Lenwade is situated on the road from Norwich to … utensils, and other relics. Witcomb Parva WITCOMB PARVA, a hamlet, in the parish of Badgeworth, poor-law union of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… 112 WITHERSLACK (C.g.) Witherslack, the Parish Church of St. Paul (O.S. 6 in. (a)XLI, N.E., (b)XLI, S.E., (c)XLII, … (d)XLII, S.W.) Witherslack is a parish on the W. border of the county 8 m. S.W. of Kendal. The church is the … inscription "Reverend John Barwick S.T.D. born in this hamlet, late Dean of St. Paul's built this Chappell A.D. …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of Beetham in the twelfth century. Henry de Bethum (125156), …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Uvell) WITHIEL ( St. Uvell), a parish, in the union of Bodmin, E. division of the hundred of Pyder and of the … 8 miles (N. E. by E.) from Coventry; containing, with the hamlet of Hopsford, 307 inhabitants. It comprises 2483 acres; … miles (N. W. by N.) from Worcester; containing, with the hamlet of Redmarley, 381 inhabitants, of whom 325 are in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and stall-rents, seem not always to have mirrored those of the town generally: during the 13th and 16th centuries, both periods of apparent growth and prosperity, market and fair income declined or remained low, suggesting that much of the town's trading took place outside the formal market …
A History of the County of Oxford
… borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 km.) west of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably the late 12th or early 13th century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality … Street referred probably to quarries immediately west of the borough; manorial and (possibly) town quarries were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … 2 the same year, however, he received royal confirmations of Forest and other rights, and most franchises seem to have … through the courts baron and a twice-yearly tourn or view of frankpledge, which continued for the rural townships …