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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of Winchester was created by Ethelwulf, father of Alfred the … to be allowed about the streets, 195 and no dead horses, dogs or carrion of any kind thrown in the road. 196 Butchers …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The hospital of St Cross HOSPITAL OF ST. CROSS The hospital of St. Cross was founded in 1136 by Henry of Blois, and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th century. The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor … pt. i, m. 20. He had previously been keeper of the king's dogs at Windsor, receiving d. a day for each of the eight …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… (O.S. 6 in. xxix. N.W.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, stands in the middle of the village and is built of stone rubble. The roofs of the chancel and S. porch are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… CAME (7088) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 68 NE, bSY 78 NW) The parish of Winterborne Came, covering some 1,560 acres immediately S.S.E. of Dorchester, lies across the valley of the South … floral swags. The firegrate is carried on cast-iron dogs, one with a woman with an empty cage, the other with a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) from the … and the head of a union, in the hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 43 miles (N.) from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Chapeiry of Parson Drove CHAPELRY OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, … and its neighbourhood were transferred from Holland to the Isle and added to Parson Drove in 1934. 3 The added area is … of the parish; it had formed a projecting salient into the Isle between Parson Drove and Thorney, and had been counted …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It was originally of the long, narrow shape usually … largely to making Elm one of the prettiest villages in the Isle. The 'needle' spire of the church recalls the southern …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon the Ouse (later the … the same as in the other Marshland villages of the Isle, but in Leverington has been considerably modified. In … the surveys of 1221 and 1251 as some of the others in the Isle. At the earlier date there were 5 free tenants, 64 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Newton NEWTON Newton is a village about 4 miles north of Wisbech, lying just west of the 'Roman Bank'. The parish, … of the elongated shape usual in the marshland areas of the Isle and Holland, stretching from the light silt soils by the … of about 6 square miles it is smaller than the majority of Isle parishes. Until 1934 the old course of the Well Stream …