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The Environs of London
… banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the distance of nine miles from London. The parish is … 3. The soil, except in the marshes, is principally gravel. At the east end of the town is a chalk-pit, which has a … stratum abounding with the same extraneous fossils as that at Charlton. This parish pays the sum of 465l. 14s. 8d. which …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… river for most of its length by Hardingstone parish except at its W. end where it extends N.W. around the W. edge of … Brook. The parish slopes gradually from 106 m. above OD at its N. edge until it meets the Wootton Brook on its S. side at 71 m. above OD. The village lies E. of the London Road at …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Porch added; the upper part of the Tower was perhaps built at the same period. The church was restored in 1872 when the … of Wootton Fitzpaine The South Chapel (30 ft. by 11 ft. at E. end and 13 ft. at W. end) is of the 15th century and has a restored …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 14th century. 93 In 1300 the land between the eastern arms at the north and south ends of the parish, which either was … century belonged to the parish in 1891 and 1997. 68 Three bells hung in the church in 1553. A ring of five bells cast in 1793 by Robert Wells of Aldbourne hung in the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… have 15th-century wall-plates. FittingsIn modern church. Bells: two; the larger by John Barber of Salisbury, … 15th-century. Plate: includes a cup and cover-paten (kept at Folke), the former with a band of engraved ornament and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Osric prevailed upon him to establish one of them at Wigornaceastre, the metropolis of his province. In 679, … suddenly, while in the act of ravaging the bishop's lands at Wick, captured or killed 500 men, and put the rest to … a desultory warfare for a considerable time. The king at length advancing against him, drove him back into Wales, …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of his office for he giving warning to the neyghbours as at a time appointed to be helpfull to the repayring of the … soe unreasonable wett that we wer enforced to leave of at that time which was the last of the six dayes wheron we … for he must goe about his owne busines, yet neverthelesse at the appointment of George Poole all the neyghbours did …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… (1680) To the right worshipfull the justices of the peace at a sessions holden at Worcester the fifth day of October, one thousand six … hundred and eighty Whereas your worships have been pleased at some former sessions to grant an order that the overseers …