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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is nearly in the centre of the peninsula of Holderness, and consists of about 2000 acres. Two-thirds are arable, and one-third under grass, among the latter of which are … above 200 acres of wood; the surface is undulated, and the soil a strong fertile clay. The living is a rectory, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… were actually being worked, of which 2 were on the demesne and 1 1/2 was worked by 10 villani; the remaining ploughteam … from Repton (Derb.) by William I. There was 8 a. of meadow and an unspecified area of underwood. Together with a mill, … Burton-upon-Trent Estate sale partics., 12-14 June 1918, lot 116. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… It is entirely on Chalk, capped in places with sands and gravels, and slopes from just over 600 ft. in the N. and 450 ft. in … part of an extensive group of barrows known as the Poor Lot Group and also the Nine Stones, a sarsen circle probably …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Winterbourne Steepleton, beside the river, is the original and still the only settlement in the parish and contains a few houses of the 16th and 17th centuries. The … which have disappeared, for example 'Catsbarrow' and 'Lot Barrow'. 'Brass Stone' probably refers to the stones …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York, 7 miles (N. W. by N.) from … inhabitants. It is situated on the east side of the Aire, and intersected by a tributary of that river. There is a … now no longer held. The parish is tolerably extensive, and the village, which is long and straggling, occupies a …
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
… elongated shape usual in the marshland areas of the Isle and Holland, stretching from the light silt soils by the Nene … of the district, forms part of the boundary between Newton and Tydd on the northwest. The boundary with Leverington on … for each commonable house. Every tenant had 1 s. for each lot added to his quit-rent. The allotments comprised a total …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Outwell and Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride the Well Stream. Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in … separating, as it has done, two counties, two dioceses, and in all probability two AngloSaxon kingdoms. The upper … eastern boundary of the parish is also a county boundary, and was in 1934 adjusted to conform with the modern course of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when Wisbech vill was divided between the Bishop of Ely and the prior and convent. That this separation had not taken place in … is rendered improbable by the line of this boundary and also by the fact that until the last century Wisbech St. …