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The Environs of London
… WIMBLEDON. Name. It is not improbable that the name of this place, which was anciently written Wymbaldon and Wymbeldon, was derived from one of its early proprietors. I have seen ancient records in which the name of Wimbaldus occurs. Dune in the Saxon language signifies a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… (O.S. 6 ins., SU 00 SW, SZ 09 NW) The Urban District of Wimborne Minster covers 653 acres on the N. bank of the R. Stour and on both banks of the R. Allen which joins the Stour in the S. of the town. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… 35 S.W., bTL 35 S.E., cTL 34 N.W., dTL 34 N.E.) The parish of Wimpole, 2468 acres in extent, lies about 8 m. S.W. of Cambridge. It is bounded on the N. by the ancient track … outcrop is irregular, the long S.E. tongue on the edge of which the church stands being, geologically, a striking …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Norton-Ferris, E. division of Somerset, 34 miles (E.) from … of the triforium. In the Transepts are several chapels and altars of exquisite beauty; the central part is separated …
Survey of London
… HOUSE AND PARK Early in the 12th century the Abbey of Bermondsey granted to the Bishop of Winchester and his successors a stretch of land in Southwark extending from the precincts of St. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Churches CHURCHES The church of ST. BARTHOLOMEW, near the remains of Hyde Abbey, consists of chancel 28 ft. 1 in. by 18 ft. 4 in., small north vestry, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, well placed on a river navigable by … of Laurence Andevere which paid 8 d., 2 terragia of the Wardens of the Spicery [ Speciarum] of St. Swithun's which … have stood empty for two years as well as one shop of the Wardens of St. John's House which paid a mark for it is in …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… Winchester cathedral was reorganized after the dissolution of the monastic chapter of St. Swithun. In royal letters patent of 28 March 1541, 1 the former prior of the monastery, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Mary's College ST. MARY'S COLLEGE Immediately south-west of Wolvesey Palace in the southern suburb of the ancient city … England, when he was a boy in Commoners. They are those of Wardens Morris (Morrys), who died 1413; Thurburn, died 1450; … numbered it was rebuilt stone by stone as a memorial to Wardens Barter and Williams. The stone bosses in Thurburn's …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of Winchester was … of wool, two 'cadaveratores,' two testers of woad, wardens of corn and poultry and wardens of tanned leather. 182 There were also two town …