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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 4066 inhabitants. In the early part of the Saxon dynasty, Basingstoke was inferior to Old Basing; but at … called Craeg-y-Saesson, supposed to have been a Saxon camp; a mile from which is one named Pen-y-Park Newydd, … disturbed only by one or two unsuccessful attacks of the Saxon chieftains, lla and Cerdic, who were bravely repulsed …
The Environs of London
… word, I think there can be little doubt. Patricesy, in the Saxon, is Peter's water, or river; and as the same record …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants. The name of this place, compounded of the Saxon terms Bec, a brook, and Ham, a dwelling, is derived …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… payments in 1795. The church, rebuilt in 1846 in the Anglo-Saxon style, is a neat edifice, and cost 1600. The parish of …
A History of the County of Essex
… p.m. Edw. III (Index Libr.), p. 136. Cf. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, 625. W. G. Hoskins and H. P. R. Finberg, …
The Environs of London
… in Doomsday, it is written Beddintone. Bedding, in the Saxon, signifies a bed or lodging: if any thing is to be …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… be the Leucomagus of Ravennas, derives its name from the Saxon Beeguyn, or Bedgwyn, expressive of its situation on an … the metropolis of Cissa, one of the three sons of lla, the Saxon chieftain, who invaded Britain in 477; and Cissa, when … and strengthened Chisbury Castle, now a noble relic of Saxon earthwork, about a mile to the north-east of the town, …
A History of the County of York
… by the compiler of the northern recension of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and his version of it extended to 806. 35 … on 21 or 23 March 867 to retake the city. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle relates that 'they attacked the army at the … rule culminated in the rising of 1065. Tostig, a West Saxon with no local ties and politically inept, roused the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in Begbroke and Yarnton near Begbroke Hill, 12 but the Saxon village of Begbroke ('Becca's brook') 13 was built c. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 208 inhabitants. This place, the name of which in the Saxon language signifies "the town of Belus, or the Sun," is …