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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 … with great pomp, in the presence of all the bishops and abbots in the kingdom. On the death of Walkelyn, in 1098, …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… WINCHESTER Bishops BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER Stigand Cons. to bpric. of Elmham 3 Apr. 1043, but depr. 1052. Nom. to Winchester … 2 Henry of Blois 3 Previously and concurrently abbot of Glastonbury (Ben., Somt.). Nom. 4 Oct. 1129 ( Ann. Margam p. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Castle CASTLE The County Hall, the great Hall of Winchester where the first Parliaments of England were held, is the only remaining portion of the castle where Norman and Angevin kings resided, where …
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
… ABBEY Winchester: Hyde Abbey Gateway In the most northerly of the old suburbs of the city, St. Bartholomew, Hyde Street, the old Roman road … Street meets the North Walls and City Road, passes west of the site of Hyde Abbey. There is a red brick house in Hyde …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… (xiii cent. et seq.). Winchester lies in the valley of the Itchen, surrounded by chalk down-land. Roman roads … it into touch with Southampton, and so with the centres of continental trade. The present area of the city is 1,906 acres, that within its ancient walls …
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 Great, in A.D. 856 1 there is no authentic …
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 lack the foundation of prosaic …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Berry Hedge Lane in 1846, and by 1871 it had an attendance of 56 boys and 50 girls. In 1874 it was vested by the vicar of Winshill (as the sole manager) in the school board … in 1874 opened a school for girls and infants in the angle of Church Hill Street and Hawfield Lane. 3 The school …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in 1668 for not coming to church may have been followers of the Presbyterian Thomas Ford, who lived in Winshill and … and on Census Sunday 1851 it had an afternoon congregation of 13, beside Sunday school children. 8 It was replaced by a … were evidently resumed, and a chapel was built at the end of North Street in 1863. 11 From 1922 the building was used …