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A History of the County of Oxford
… and Wootton. At Dunthrop and Showell, properties of Bruern abbey, Cistercian sheep farming seems to have been a cause, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its early minster church succeeded in 1005 by Eynsham abbey, which remained a dominant influence in the west of the area throughout the Middle Ages. Godstow abbey was established in the south of the hundred in the 12th … some distinguished houses in the 18th century. Of Eynsham abbey only fragments survive but of Godstow abbey more was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… parish which, because it was later an endowment of Battle abbey (Suss.), may also have been the king's in 1086. Neither … district in 1974. 29 CHURCH. A church belonging to the abbey of Mont St. Michel (Manche) stood at Wootton Rivers in … Wootton Rivers church was served by a rector, and the abbey was entitled to a pension from its revenues. 31 In 1991 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… seats of several noblemen, amongst which are, Welbeck Abbey the seat 'of the Duke of Portland; Clumber, the mansion … parish is situated on the navigable river Stour, from a ford across which, and from a former proprietor of the manor, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… an earlier establishment founded as a cell of Gloucester Abbey and from this the college took its name. The site was … the arch are three shields-of-arms (a) probably Winchcomb Abbey, (b) St. Alban's Abbey, and (c) Ramsey Abbey. The S. Range of Camerae forms …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… 52 A great wood, called Room wood, longid to this abbey." "Wyrkesop is called in some old writings Radeford. … about the middle of the present century; as was also the Abbey gate-house. That which is called the church now …
A History of the County of Essex
… it to the abbot and convent of Waltham Holy Cross. 47 The abbey was dissolved in 1540 but Henry granted Wormingford … an Evangelical who later founded an Independent chapel at Ford End, Great Waltham. 76 In 1841 members of all 106 …
A History of the County of Essex
… employment, increasingly outside the parish. Worming- ford failed to derive the economic benefit that a railway in …
A History of the County of Essex
… the parish with Assington (Suff.) across Worming- ford bridge, with Fordham, and with Little Horkesley and … to ascend the steep gradients. 38 Wormingford 1838 The ford from which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the …