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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wilton - Wimpole Wilton WILTON, a hamlet, in the parish of Hale, union of Whitehaven, Allerdale ward above Derwent, W. division of … hundred of East Goscote, N. division of the county of Leicester, 5 miles (N. E. by E.) from Loughborough; …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… (O.S. 6 ins., SU 00 SW, SZ 09 NW) The Urban District of Wimborne Minster covers 653 acres on the N. bank of the R. Stour and on both banks of the R. Allen which joins … and by whose initiative is not known; the earls of Leicester who held the manor of Kingston Lacy in the 12th and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Norton-Ferris, E. division of Somerset, 34 miles (E.) from … cardinal died before it was completed, and was buried in Leicester Abbey; and the unfinished sepulchre was destroyed …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, well placed on a river navigable by small craft to the foot of St. Giles Down, near but not too near the coast and served … buying wool from the bishop. 13 York, Beverley, Lincoln, Leicester and Northampton 14 were all accustomed from time to …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th century. The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor … church doth read Latin in a whole weeke.' 229 The Earl of Leicester could give another account of the queen's …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… 6 in. XII N.E.) Winwick is a parish and village 8 m. N. of Kimbolton. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of All Saints stands on the E. side of the village. The walls … completely restored. Fittings Bells: five; 3rd by Edward Newcombe, mid 16th-century; 4th by the same founder and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) from the town of … hundred of Gartree, S. division of the county of Leicester, 7 miles (S. E. by S.) from Leicester; containing …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It was originally of the long, narrow shape usually found in Wisbech hundred, … were given to Nuneaton Priory (Warws.) by Robert, Earl of Leicester, about 1154. 80 In 121012 4 acres of this estate …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were collectively known as … Together they stretch about 4 miles along the old course of the Nene, and are locally considered, probably with truth, … in 1629, and their daughter Elizabeth with her husband Leicester Devereux in 1647. 22 The latter, as Viscount …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Thorney THORNEY This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its nucleus is an island of gravel, not very perceptible except from the west, but … is now one of the main cross-country routes of England (Leicester-Norwich); it was turnpiked from Peterborough to …