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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. Before the Conquest Brictric son of Algar … it together with pasture rights in Tidenham Chase and the fisheries of Wall Weir, Half Weir, and Baddings Weir to …
A History of the County of Somerset
… rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from east to west. Its northern and eastern boundaries were marked by watercourses including … part of the parish lies in the alluvial Brue valley and averages 5 m. (16 ft.) above sea level. It is the site …
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 … 25,875 inhabitants. This place, originally a small fishing-town, unnoticed by any of the earlier Kentish …
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
… yt please your worshipps, that whereas at [Michaellmas?] and Trinitye sessions last past there was a bill of … maintaine have served their apprentishipps to the trade of fishing and have noe other calling to maintaine them and … like to perish, the said river being thus destroyed for fishing; your petitioners severall time peti= tioned against …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… here delivered of a bastard sonne who prooveth impotent, and shortly after the said Clarke brought a bond and delivered it to the oversee minister of the said parishe … was then a prisoner in the custody of the said Clarke and or since [illegible] convicted of felony, soe that by …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… see the conquerour made it) had one car. in demesne, and twenty-two sochm. on twelve bovats of this land, and twenty-four villains, and eight bord. having twenty-two car. and eight acres of …
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 ploughs increased from 3 to 4, … only 23 a. of arable. 1 There was a fishery in 1086, 2 and fishing in the Stour by boat was recorded c. 1240. 3 Worm- …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… was built early in the 12th century, but was lengthened, and the W. wall re-built probably when the bell-turret was … had become ruinous, has been re-built in modern times, and the South Porch is also modern. Architectural … are two windows, the eastern of the 15th or 16th century and of two square-headed lights; the western window is …