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A History of the County of Somerset
… has been formed through a ridge of disjointed outcrops of Forest Marble clay and Cornbrash limestone. Emerging from … at the junction of routes from Castle Cary, Bruton, Mere (Wilts.), Sherborne (Dors.), and Yeovil. The east-west route … Lane and land in the east of the parish lay inside Selwood forest. 46 Water from Shatterwell, north-west of the town, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Cerdic, and the defeat of the united Britons in the New Forest, it became the capital of the Saxon kingdom of Wessex, … the year 1100, when, being killed while hunting in the New Forest, his body was brought into the city on the following … of age, entered a nunnery at Amesbury, in the county of Wilts; Edward III.; William, the sixth son of Edward, who …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Briwere in 1232 to sell all the underwood in the king's forest of 'La Bere,' 22 and, later, to supply timber from the same forest 23 and Alice Holt Forest 24 for the great hall. In 1233 the mayor was warned to …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… in bread. The charge is paid out of an estate in Bromham, Wilts. A sum of 800 consols is held by the official trustees …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Alton road, for few merchants passed through the king's forest to St. Giles' Down. But, on the other hand, there was … but the Gloucester product may have included iron from the Forest of Dean. Cf. Pipe R. 25 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), 91. …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of the later castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest Edward the … Cygony, as constable of Windsor Castle and keeper of the forest. 45 This was in direct contravention of the Great … and Beynhurst, together with manors in Bucks., Surrey and Wilts. 507 Frogmore House Among the payments due to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… situated on the road from London, through Windsor Forest, to Reading. It comprises 9878 a. 18 p., and contains … N. divisions, and Trowbridge and Bradford subdivisions, of Wilts, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from Trowbridge; containing 305 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… N. divisions, and Trowbridge and Bradford subdivisions, of Wilts, 1 mile (W.) from Bradford; the tything containing 2269 …