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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Croxton 12 CROXTON (O.S. 6 ins. aTL 26 S.W., bTL 26 S.E., cTL 25 N.W., dTL 25 N.E.) Croxton is a village about 13 m. W. of Cambridge immediately to the S. of the present Cambridge … frame, is a reset renaissance carving of the Virgin and Child against a semicircular gadrooned background, also …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Croydon 13 CROYDON (O.S. 6 ins. aTL 25 S.E., bTL 35 S.W., cTL 24 N.E., dTL 34 N.W.) The parishes of Croydon and Clopton (sometimes called Clapton), united in … that of the manor house of Clopton, called Clopton Bury; a child was drowned here in 1348 (W. M. Palmer, op. cit. 55). …
The Environs of London
… Croydon CROYDON. Name. The name of this place in Doomsday, is called Croindone, and is … of London. The parish is very extensive; in the Conqueror's Survey, it is said to contain twenty plough lands, and is … of the body of Rose Eastman, wife of John Eastman, being a child with two heads, four arms, four legs, one body, one …
A History of the County of Surrey
… century. In 1276 Archbishop Kilwardby obtained a grant of market to be kept every Friday and a fair to be held for … of the first fair held under this grant the archbishop's bailiffs and ministers deputed to receive the tolls and … foundations. Whitgift had himself been brought up as a child in a religious house and undoubtedly wished to restore …
Survey of London
… Cubitt Town Public Housing Public Housing The extent of the wartime damage necessitated large-scale clearance of … and they were largely replaced by public housing. St John's Estate The first major post-war housing scheme by Poplar … attached to No. 519. In addition, the single-storey Island Child Welfare Centre was designed and constructed for the LCC …
Survey of London
… inspector to Greenwich Hospital, put forward the idea of saving from industrial development the ground on the Isle … of Dogs opposite the Hospital. In a report on the Hospital's sanitary condition he drew attention to a growing number of … was developed in the 1920s, selling to school clinics, child-welfare centres and medical institutions generally. A …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Cucklington CUCKLINGTON The ancient parish of Cucklington lies on the south-eastern edge of the hundred … in Clinger which was held by John de St. Clair. 59 William's grandson, also William and earl of Salisbury, had fee there … Nathaniel (d. c. 1834), both clergymen. 89 Mary, only child of the last, married Robert Foster Grant, from 1826 …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Culross CULROSS, a royal burgh and a parish, in the county of Perth, 7 miles (W.) from Dunfermline, and 21 (W. N. W.) … ancient seat erected by Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrew's. The Ecclesiastical affairs are under the superintendence … county of Kincardine; including the villages of Lochside, Milton, Roadside, and Tangleha, and containing 1600 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Curbridge Estates ESTATES In 956 an estate of 17 hides at Curbridge was granted by Abingdon abbey to … reverted to the bishop of Winchester as lord. 2 Thomas's estate may have descended from 6 freehold yardlands in … S. Leadam (1897), i. 365. Richard Fermor, Emmot's fourth child by her second husband, was of age by 1501: Oxon. Wills, …
Cuxham
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… Cuxham CUXHAM Cuxham is a small rural parish at the foot of the Chilterns, c.2 km north-west of Watlington. 1 The … follows a track called Hyde Lane and (in the south) Turner's Green Lane, which leads south through Britwell Prior. 7 The … in 2012, farming 900 a. in Cuxham, Waterstock, Great Milton and Clare. The rent for Manor farm rose steadily from …