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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 … granting to the citizens of Winchester all the liberties and customs which they had enjoyed during the time of Henry …
Survey of London
… to its present site at the corner of Cleveland Street and Mortimer Street. St. Pancras Female Charity School was … show that nearly all the houses on both the north and south sides of the street were occupied by the year 1770. … Jupp, architect, who designed the entrance hall to the Carpenters' Company, and nephew of Richard Jupp, architect to …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the Earl; 'then it was taxed for 5 hides, now for 4 hides, and the castle of Windsor is on the (other) half hide.' 1 The castle was thus a new work, and there are no grounds for assuming it to be older than the … William, the castle was no doubt raised by his orders, 3 and from the first it has been the special stronghold of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… the left bank of the Wye, 6 m. S. of Kington. The church and Winforton Court are the principal monuments. The church contains an interesting 18th-century organ and case, not included in the inventory, as probably after … Scratchings: On E. and S.E. windows of chancelvarious masons' marks. ConditionGood, much altered. Secular (2). …
A History of the County of Stafford
… middle-class houses were built along the Ashby road, and there has also been extensive 20thcentury council and private housing development in the south-eastern part of … township. Winshill was a township in Burton ancient parish and later a civil parish covering 1,150 a. (465.4 ha.). 15 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… were three ploughs on the demesne of Winstone in 1086 and eight servi were employed. 81 The amount under plough at … to one plough-land with 20 a. of wood, 5 a. of meadow, and 2 a. of pasture, 84 and remained as such throughout the … by a carpenter, a maltster, 17 and a blacksmith. 18 Carpenters were recorded in the parish from 1856 to 1910, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Street the parish is confined by that road on the east and by the river Frome on the west; the northern boundary is … in part by a stream which meets the Frome at Washbrook, and the southern follows field boundaries. The parish in 1971 … Huntsman and Hounds. 30 The name had been changed to the Masons' Arms by 1856 31 and remained that until c. 1960 when …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington LEVERINGTON Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a … outfall, a village site protected by the 'Roman Bank', and a landward extension into the fen-was originally the same … Parson Drove (q.v.), has been separated both for civil and ecclesiastical purposes, and the hamlet of Gorefield is …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… differently constituted, with narrow frontages to the Bank and long extensions into the fen. Since, moreover, Thorney is on peat and not on silt fen, the orchards and market gardens which are such a feature of the Wisbech …