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A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock Introduction Introduction In 1279 local jurors asserted that New Woodstock was founded … land outside the park so that men might build hospitia, and he granted a market to the new residents. 5 The story is … said to have been vacant when the town was founded. Roman coins were found near the church in 1755 and an urn near …
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 River Severn to the high ground … the off-shore Guscar Rocks. 18 A hoard of c. 250 Roman coins from c. 313 to c. 346 was discovered at an unidentified …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from east to west. Its northern and eastern … north on the moor, mounds of debris including pottery and coins are thought to have been part of a salt-making …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woothorpe - Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of … to St. Mary, existed here in the time of Henry I., and was united in the reign of Edward III. to the convent of … trifling bequests for the poor. Several hundreds of Roman coins were discovered in 1843. Wootton (St. Mary) WOOTTON ( …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a SP 75 NW, b SP 75 NE) Wootton parish, 702 hectares in area, lies S. of Northampton and the R. Nene. It is separated from the river for most of … on Upper Lias Clay, at 73 m. above OD. A total of 684 coins was found in 1842 in a pot in a stone-pit. They ranged …
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, … of the Severn, to secure his conquests. Great numbers of coins and other relics have been discovered in and near …
History Theses 1901-1970
… World WORLD The Calvinist tradition in education in France, Scotland and New England during the 16th and 17th centuries. I. … Shaffner. Oxford B.Litt. 1928. Systems of limitation of currency. G.R. Elvey. Oxford B.Litt. 1926. Studies in the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wormingford is a parish of early woodland clearance, 44 and con- siderable arable farming was recorded from the Middle Ages. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of demesne … continued to hold 2 ploughs, suggesting a slight increase in the area under cultivation. The 19 sokemen had 2 ploughs. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worplesdon (St. Mary) WORPLESDON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Guildford, First division of the hundred of … with the tythings of Burgham, Perry-Hill, West-End, and Wyke, 1424 inhabitants. The parish comprises 6795 a. 3 r. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wothersome - Wrayton Wothersome WOTHERSOME, a township, in the parish of Bardsey, Lower division of the wapentake of … gives name to the hundred, is about nine miles in length and one mile in average breadth; it includes Leith Hill, and … same down, upon opening a tumulus in 1815, several hundred coins of the Lower Empire were discovered, with fragments of …