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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… 34 N.W., dTL 34 N.E.) The parish of Wimpole, 2468 acres in extent, lies about 8 m. S.W. of Cambridge. It is bounded … Way, on the W. by Ermine Street, with some adjustments in either case, and on the S. by the river Rhee. The boundary … The land exhibits the usual variation from boulder clay in the N., where it rises to a scarp over 250 ft. above O.D., …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Norton-Ferris, E. division of Somerset, 34 … engagements between the contending parties took place in the immediate vicinity of this town; in which, according to Burnet's History of his own Times, was …
Survey of London
… House and Park CHAPTER 6: WINCHESTER HOUSE AND PARK Early in the 12th century the Abbey of Bermondsey granted to the … Bishop of Winchester and his successors a stretch of land in Southwark extending from the precincts of St. Mary's … they came within their jurisdiction. See of Winchester In the 13th century the Bishop's land is referred to as …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the remains of Hyde Abbey, consists of chancel 28 ft. 1 in. by 18 ft. 4 in., small north vestry, north chapel 23 ft. 5 in. by 14 ft. 6 in., nave 62 ft. 10 in. by 24 ft. 2 in., …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Henry I extended the fair-time for a further five days in exchange for lands taken from the bishopric. Stephen 1 granted six days more and Henry Plantagenet early 2 in his reign, characteristically ignoring his predecessor's … to twenty or twenty-four by temporary grants 3 and often in practice exceeded, seems to have been regarded as the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of … was created by Ethelwulf, father of Alfred the Great, in A.D. 856 1 there is no authentic evidence of its existence … was inevitable, but that this stage had not been reached in the 12th century is shown clearly by the two charters of …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… as to the early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries. 1 During the Saxon period, … the Confessor had granted Windsor with 20 hides of land in the neighbourhood to the monastery of St. Peter at Westminster, 3 but in the first year of the new reign King William regained …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… are narrow outcrops of Reading Beds and London Clay which in turn give way to extensive heathland on Bagshot Beds and … Frome and N.E. to include East Burton, but this is now in the parish of Wool. Winfrith Newburgh village, the … and extensive remains of its former open fields lie in the Chalk valleys to the S. Other small settlements …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… lying just west of the 'Roman Bank'. The parish, which in 1934 was increased by 551 acres from West Walton (Norf.), 1 is of the elongated shape usual in the marshland areas of the Isle and Holland, stretching … the village to peat on clay at the extreme western end in the fen. With an area of about 6 square miles it is …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… It became indeed the main feature of Wisbech life in the later Middle Ages and was the direct ancestor of the Corporation. It is reputed to have originated in 1379, the year of the earliest surviving account. 99 Certain entries in the account, however, make it plain that the Guild had …