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The Later Records relating to North Westmorland
… BROUGHAM Including Whinfell Park, Hornby, Winderwath and Woodside. ANTIQUITIES. Within the parish we have a Stone Circle on the south side of Leacet Wood one and a half mile west from Cliburn Station; the Roman fort of … does not mention Brougham when in 1174, William, the Lion of Scotland, captured Appleby and Brough, but the castle …
The Later Records relating to North Westmorland
… Six stones of a circle, 15 feet in diameter; (3) a circle and cairn, 11 feet in diameter; (4) a circle of eleven stones … circle, 14 feet in diameter, revetting a mound; (10) "White Raise" tumulus some 57 to 60 feet in diameter and from … Hutchinson 1678r.1680 Joseph James 1680r.1690 Thomas Bell 1690r.1695 David Bell 1695d.1696 John Sisson 1696r.1707 …
A History of the County of Leicester
… of Leicester, on the road from Leicester to Lutterworth, and on the River Soar and the Leicestershire and Northampton … land in Aylestone and he may have been the donor of the bell. 116 The bells were restored and a new tenor by Taylor … Aylestone. See V.C.H. Leics. iii. 181. See below, p. 418. White, Dir. Leics. (1846), 375. F. R. Melville, Dir. Leics. …
A History of the County of Leicester
… I; 1 the first syllable is probably of Norman origin and the name should therefore be translated as 'fine wood'. 2 … to obtain recent figures for the pop. of the old township. White, Dir. Leics. (1846), 325; Leic. City Mun. Room, … Curtis, Topog. Hist. Leics. 14. Leic. Jnl. 19 May 1826. White, Dir. Leics. (1877), 151; the Harrisons also owned …
A History of the County of Leicester
… of the centre of Leicester. In 1891 the civil parish and former chapelry of Braunstone, which is the area whose … be based on documentary evidence and may well be correct. White, Leics. Dir. (1846), 546, says that Hastings sold the … W. Phillimore, i. 245. Cal. Cttee.for Compounding, 1761. White, Dir. Leics. (1846), 546; ibid. (1877), 172: and ex …
A History of the County of Leicester
… 1,950 acres. The total population of the Spinney Hill ward and the old village, which covered most of the ancient … 112 Charities. There are no endowed charities in Evington. White, Dir. Leics. (1846), 497; Census, 1931. This part of … V.C.H. Leics. iii. 59. Ibid. 187. See below, p. 438; White, Leics. Dir. (1846), 497. White, op. cit. Leic. …
A History of the County of Leicester
… Humberstone lies 2 miles north-east from Leicester and was formerly an ancient and civil parish in East Goscote … patron saint was putrifacta et senex, that there was no bell, that the chancel and the gate of the churchyard were in … Stephens, the boro. surveyor. P.O. Dir. Leics. (1855), 51; White, Dir. Leics. (1863), 60. Hagar's Dir. Leics. (1849), …
A History of the County of Leicester
… KNIGHTON Knighton is now part of the city of Leicester and is largely a built-up area two miles south-east of the … of Leic. Review Order, 1935. J. Simmons, City of Leic. 52. White, Dir. Leics. (1846), 399. V.C.H. Leics. i. 309. The … and ibid. 160388, passim. Leic. City Mun. Room, 1D32/295. White, Dir. Leics. (1846), 399. Ibid. (1877), 259. Burke, …
A History of the County of Leicester
… 3 called 'Hereswode', 4 was four leagues in length and one league in breadth, 5 and this may refer either to … 1801, is evidently an error: cf. Nichols, Leics. iv. 492; White, Dir. Leics. (1846), 324. Leic. Extension Act, 1891, 54 … Beaumont Leys, 17731832; Leic. City Mun. Room, 3D42/M. 12. White, Dir. Leics. (1846), 325. Kelly's Handbook to the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… which runs through the parish from north to south, and is crossed by the road from Tenbury. The south-western … bounded by a tributary of the Teme. The parish lies high and is very hilly. The Cleobury Mortimer road is between 400 … and the right elbow are broken away. There is one old bell, cast at York, which is now cracked and placed on a wood …