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A History of the County of Gloucester
… a parish of scattered hamlets lying midway between Lydney and Chepstow. Roughly rectangular in shape, it rises from the … the parish, comprising 3,303 a. excluding river foreshore and tidal water. 1 The area included Madgett, a detached piece of cultivated land on Tidenham Chase, and a long, narrow neck of land extending to the steep valley …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. Before the Conquest Brictric son of Algar … the manor of Woolaston, an action confirmed by his nephew and heir Gilbert Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke (d. c. 1148) and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WOOLBEDING The parish, with an area of 1,950 acres and a population in 1931 of 288, is some 4 miles from north … 2 miles. The northern half of the parish is largely common and woodland, and there is another large block of woodland at its southern …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 a. … is celebrated for a remarkably fine vein of brick-earth, and the white bricks made here are in great estimation. One … in England is held at Woolpit on September 16th, and a large fair for bullocks on the 18th and 19th. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Ancient and historical monuments in east London Woolwich 12. … Woolwich consists of the parishes of Woolwich, Plumstead and Eltham. The principal monuments are Eltham Palace, Well … two houses, contains exposed ceiling-beams, some re-fixed linen-fold-panelling and some of 17th-century date. In a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, Worcester and W. divisions of the county, 111 miles (N. W. by W.) from … of its situation near a fordable part of the river Severn, and on the confines of a thick forest, it was selected as a …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… passinge over the Kinges highe waye betweene Eckington and Norton in the countie of Worcester into a grounde of your petitioneres. The same grounde and landefludd hathe bene viewed by Sir Thomas [R...ell?] [knight?] and John Handforde esquier whose inheritaunce yt concernethe, …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Wilkes Shewinge, that he beinge borne in Ombersley and beinge maryed unto one Christian [Maneley?] borne at … bought may have some convenient cotage for themselves and theire poore inphantes to be shrowded therein, who ar now … cunstable of part of Crowle. James Browne of Areley Kings, linen weaver. Ref.110 BA1/1/27/93 (1617) To the right …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… there are many poore men to the number of thirty persons and upwardes who lye there, some upon their behaviour and the most part of the rest upon matters of small or noe … wold unchristianlike be starved to death with hunger cold and nakednes, some of them alsoe haveing many poore children …