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A History of the County of Berkshire
… Parishes Chieveley CHIEVELEY with LECKHAMPSTEAD and WINTERBOURNE Cifanlea (x cent.); Cifelei (xi cent.); … lies on the southern slope of the Berkshire Downs and is drained by the Winterbourne Brook. The parish consists … when it was stated that the bounds of the manor were co-extensive with those of the tithing of Snelsmore. Thomas …
A History of the County of Essex
… km. SSE. of Brentwood, between Little Warley, to the west, and West Horndon. 1 The ancient parish comprised 1,635 a. … the railway line between the urban districts of Brentwood and Billericay (later Basildon). 2 In 1938 the area south of … the 19th and 20th centuries. About 1937 the Essex Brick Co. started operations on land adjoining Childerditch Hall, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Like most of the parishes in this hundred, it is long and narrow, and is crossed from east to west by the Ridgeway and the … dated 1707. There are six bells: the treble by G. Mears & Co., 1865; the second by Pack & Chapman, 1770; the third …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… in Saxon, Cyleham; which signifies the cold place; and some think this place was antiently called Julham, or … emperor, who had several conflicts with the Britons in and near it. The Parish of Chilham is situated exceedingly … in Herald's office. See pedigree of Payne, Visitation co. Kent, 1619. See more of them, vol. vi. of this history, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… west of Salisbury. 1 It is a rectangular parish on a north and south axis and measures 4.5 km. by 3 km., 1,299 ha. (3,210a.). Its name … Levi Bowles worked there from c. 1875 and Levi Bowles & Co. continued until c. 1920. In 1907 T. T. Gething, who had …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 1,089 acres are arable land, 302 acres permanent grass, and 3 acres woods and plantations. 1 The soil is chiefly chalk and light gravel … Henry. Margery had married John Gainsford of Crowhurst (co. Surr.). In 14789 the Chilton property was settled on John …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… acres. The country in the north consists of open down and the ground here reaches a height of 39 ft. above the … situated on the main road from Basingstoke to Winchester, and consists of a few scattered houses built of brick and … was settled on Nicholas Bayntun, lord of Falstone (co. Wilts.) and Joan his wife in fee-tail, 13 and from the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… absorbed in 1920. It is about 4 miles from east to west and about 2 miles from north to south. Its eastern boundary … the Wem Brook, which runs into the Anker below Nuneaton; and on the south a branch of the River Sowe forms the … Francis Newdigate's agent for his estates at Kirk Hallam, co. Derby, and Arbury. A year later, the family moved to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was formed in 1932 when the ancient parishes of Chinnor and Emmington were united. 1 The ancient parish of Chinnor covered 2,712 acres and like other Chiltern parishes was narrow and elongated in … electrical engineer's shop. Another business, S. T. Good & Co., joiners, was established by 1939, 389 but the most …
A History of the County of Somerset
… rectangular in shape, measured 2 km. from east to west and 3.5 km. from north to south. A detached area some 2.5 km. … north of the northern boundary, beyond Huish Champflower and reaching to the Brendon ridgeway, included East Withy and … Ibid. D/P/chip 2/1/4. P.R.O., HO 107/1921. Morris and Co., Dir. Som. (1872); Kelly's Dir. Som. (1889); P.R.O., HO …