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A History of the County of Oxford
… extraparochial places, notably Woodstock, later Blenheim, Park. Eynsham and Woodstock were boroughs and market towns. … to a royal estate, Woodstock manor, centred on the king's palace and park at Woodstock and encompassing several 'demesne towns', …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… village in the Middle Ages. 92 The suffix in the parish's name is the surname of lords of the principal manor and was … part of Savernake forest was inclosed as Savernake great park, and later the main Marlborough-Salisbury road ran … opened fully in 1810. 6 A wharf, a lock, and a lock keeper's house were built immediately south of the village, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… cathedral, of which the only one now remaining is Edgar's tower. In 1041, a tax imposed by Hardicanute excited an … when endeavouring to shelter themselves in Edgar's tower, and put them to death. To punish this outrage, the … number of elegant mansions, among which are, Croome Park, Hartlebury Castle, Hewell Park, Madresfield, Northwick …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Wilde Roger [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] John [S...?] [illegible] To pay to Whistance for the [illegible] …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… lose it: nor she to pay it: the eldest of the poor widow's 3 children was borne with a rupture and lies almost … the county of Worcester, hath bene obliged to pay toward's the mayntenance of his grandchildren liveing att Bengworth … of Worcester aforesaid, the weekley summe of one shilling' s, now wee whose names are hereunto subscribed doe humbly …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Hugh his brothers (to wit) that between the way and the park, and Impecroft, to make a holt; for twigs [virgultum] He … therefore take a cursorary review, after Leland and Tanner's account. " Werkensop a pretty market town of two streets, … bishop of Canterbury and Gerard bishop of York in Henry's days. His b'ood and inheritance came to a daughter that …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… Worlingham. Ulf, a free-man of Gurth, the brother of Harold, held Worlingham at the time of the Survey, and Roger … of land and a Bordar; and the Abbot of Bury St. Edmund's held the other half, with five acres of land, worth twelve … eldest daughter of Sir John Bernard, Bart., of Brampton Park, in Northamptonshire, left an only surviving daughter, …
A History of the County of Essex
… which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the … is that a crocodile escaped from Richard I's menagerie in the Tower of London and caused much damage in … a monk, told of a dragon who threatened Richard Waldegrave's territory near Sudbury but fled into the Mere when pursued. …
A History of the County of Essex
… manors in Mount Bures and West Bergholt. 98 Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, and Henry I granted it to … Mountfichet. In 1267 on the death without issue of William's descendant Richard de Munfichet, the overlordship passed to … rebuilding and alteration. Field names suggest there was a park to the south. 13 Another deer park, mentioned c. 1528, …