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Old and New London
… Aldersgate Street and St Martin-le-Grand CHAPTER XXVII. ALDERSGATE STREET AND ST. MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND. Origin of the NameHistory of the … Post Office Removed to St. Martin's-le-GrandStatistics and Curiosities of the Post OfficeStampingCurious …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Aldingbourne ALDINGBOURNE The parish contains 3,098 acres and measures 4 miles from north to south with an average … mile. It is mostly good agricultural land lying between 25 and 50 ft. above sea-level, but rising to 120 ft. on its … facts. According to these, Nothelm, King of the South Saxons, in 692 gave to Nothgithe his sister for the erection …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the reach of a high tide. The soil is a friable loam and marl, constantly melting down; and the sea threatens greater ravages: the present area is … appear to have been the first points of attack when the Saxons began to infest the coasts. It is bounded on the south …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… N.W. of the R. Nene at 100 ft. above OD, over a broad and generally flat interfluve some 260 ft. to 290 ft. above OD and then down the S. side of the Lyveden valley, here 200 ft. … parish is noteworthy for the large number of Prehistoric and Roman sites found in it; this has been the result of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Upper division of the hundred of Doddingtree, Worcester and W. divisions of the county of Worcester, 7 miles (W. by … seneschals Wibert and Leofric, obtained a victory over the Danes in this neighbourhood, but was defeated and slain on … Great, after the victory obtained by that monarch over the Danes at Ethandune. Aller Moor was the scene of a battle …
A History of the County of London
… Alien Houses Hermits and Anchorites of London 46. THE HERMITS AND ANCHORITES OF … disposed of property in the parish of St. Clement Danes in 1265–6 35 and 1268–9, 36 but his hermitage, of … Fink. 66 A recluse called Lady Joan lived in St. Clement Danes in 1426. 67 The anchoress at Allhallows London Wall, …
A History of the County of London
… Marshal, earl of Pembroke, in the reign of Henry III, and therefore before 1231, when William the second earl marshal died, and was endowed by him with 100 s. rent at Southampton, land … a messuage and field in the parish of St. Clement Danes, which it had received from the king in 1542 in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… priory of Deerhurst 17. THE PRIORY OF DEERHURST The origin and early history of Deerhurst are very obscure. According to … at Deerhurst soon after 804. 2 Leland also stated that the Danes burnt Deerhurst. 3 The monastery was rebuilt in or … 970. St. Alphege in his youth was a monk of the house, and was even then conspicuous for his holy life. 4 It is …
A History of the County of Kent
… it as the place where there was formerly an abbey of nuns, and where St. Eanswith was buried, and adding that it had been destroyed by the Danes. 1 The account 2 of the life of St. Eanswith says that …
A History of the County of Dorset
… Cressy, in his account of the assault on Wareham by the Danes in that year, describes the house as 'a noble … abbey of Lire, founded by William Fitz Osborn, kinsman and marshal to the Conqueror, 134 was established here in the … foundation, which was probably also destroyed by the Danes; Leland, Collect. ii, 388; Birch, Cart. Sax. i, 152; …