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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Aldingham - Alfreton Aldingham (St. Cuthbert) ALDINGHAM ( St. Cuthbert), a parish, in the union of Ulverston, hundred … the reach of a high tide. The soil is a friable loam and marl, constantly melting down; and the sea threatens …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… parish of Aldsworth lies 6.5 km. south-east of Northleach and 5 km. north-east of Cirencester. In 1976 it covered an … followed the river Leach and a short section of the Coln St. Aldwyns road. The Leach broke its banks in 1412 2 and … 296 In 1639 the curacy was disputed by Daniel Cowley and Laurence Griffith; the latter, who claimed to have been …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… N.W. of the R. Nene at 100 ft. above OD, over a broad and generally flat interfluve some 260 ft. to 290 ft. above OD and then down the S. side of the Lyveden valley, here 200 ft. … Cultivation remains. The common fields of the parishes of St. Peter and of All Saints were enclosed by Act of …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… patterns; farmsteads surrounded by closes between them, and church and manor house by the river Brue. ALFORD, … fill three lights of a north window c. 1935. It includes St Katherine, the Evangelists, St Margaret, St Mary Magdalene, angels and canopies, probably …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Upper division of the hundred of Doddingtree, Worcester and W. divisions of the county of Worcester, 7 miles (W. by … acres and a half. There is a chapel of ease, dedicated to St. Mary, in which marriages, baptisms, and burials are … has been vested in the schoolhouse and land. Alfriston (St. Andrew) ALFRISTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union …
A History of the County of Rutland
… ALIEN CELL 6. THE PRIORY OF EDITH WESTON The abbey of St. Georges de Boscherville for Benedictine monks was founded … chamberlain to the Conqueror, about the year 1050: 1 and the manor and church of Edith Weston were added to its … clerk to the parish church. 7 But before 1394 the abbot of St. Georges obtained permission to sell his rights in the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… of Ralph de Todeni, of whom it was held by the abbot of St. Taurinus, Evreux, in France. Four hides were held free of … stated; it was a cell subject to the abbey in France and endowed with the manor and church of Astley. Among the deeds of the abbey of St. Taurinus is a charter granted by Richard I. in January …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of William Rufus, as a cell of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin at Sées in Normandy. Sées formed part of the … inheritance of his mother, the notorious Countess Mabel, and its abbey, refounded in 1060 by his father, received … the churches of Walton and Kirkham to the abbey of St. Peter at Shrewsbury, the chief English foundation of the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Abbey of Lonlay in Normandy. It never became denizen and after the great war with France it was suppressed and its estates used for the endowment of the College of St. Mary of Eton. It arose out of a grant 1 made in the time … I by William de Falaise and Geva his wife of the church of St. Andrew of Stoke to the church of St. Mary of Lonlay, 4 …
A History of the County of Hertford
… due to Hugh de Grentemaisnil's gift of the church, tithe and 2 carucates of land here 1 to the abbey of St. Evroul in Normandy. 2 There is no evidence when the house … in England granted by the Conqueror's Norman followers to St. Evroul's must soon have made the establishment of a cell …