Search
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Worth Matravers 53 WORTH MATRAVERS (9777) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 97 NE, bSY 98 SE) Worth Matravers, a parish covering 2,700 acres, lies in the S. part of the Isle of Purbeck, 3 miles W. of Swanage. It … scarp below which is the wooded valley of the E. Corfe river on Wealden Beds around 150 ft. above O.D. As elsewhere …
A History of the County of Sussex
… had led to the accumulation of shingle, and Worthing's former fine, hard sands 78 had been replaced by a pebbly … 30 The naturalists Richard Jefferies (1848-87) and W. H. Hudson (1841-1922) are both buried in Broadwater cemetery. 31 … Wilde (1975), 169-73. Worthing Surv. 264. D.N.B. W. H. Hudson, a Tribute, ed. S. J. Looker (1947), 119-20; S.C.M. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of Findon and Sompting transferred to Worthing in 1933. O.S. Area Bk. (1876). Worthing Town and Market Act, 43 Geo. … Smail, Map Story, 53, 75. The boundary was not shown in O.S. Map 6", Suss. LXIV (1879 edn.). Census, 1871. L.G.B. Prov. … Act, 1875, 38 & 39 Vic. c. 175 (Local); Census, 1881; O.S. Map 6", Suss. LXIV. SW. (1899 edn.). Census, 1891-1971. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the wapentake of Skyrack, W. riding of York, 3 miles (S.) from Wetherby; containing 19 inhabitants. It comprises … the hundred of Wotton, W. division of Surrey, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Dorking; containing, with the chapelry of … another stream rises under the hill, and runs into the river Arun. There are considerable woods of oak, ash, beech, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ward, E. division of the county of Cumberland, 5 miles (S. E. by S.) from Carlisle; containing 151 inhabitants. The Lancaster … inhabitants. The township is bounded on the south by the river Coquet, and takes its name from the stream of the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a mainly rural parish, lies south and east of the river Tern and north of Watling Street; the western boundary … original line of Watling Street: the boundary - the 'king's boundary' - diverged northwards from the road at Overley … in 1841, 1,380 in 1961, and 2,105 in 1981, 2 Admaston's growth largely accounting for an increase in the 1960s. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… carried on to some extent, and there is a corn-mill on the river Tern, which bounds the parish on the north. In the … The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 7. 8. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The … inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 3. 7. 8., and in the gift of the Crown; net …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… or continued expansion of cultivation, and Wrockwardine's value had risen from £6 13 s. 8 d. T.R.E. to £12 10 s. in 1086. Charlton, which had one … the parish was apparently always that at Allscott, on the river Tern. It was probably the mill worth 12 s. in 1086. 1 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bradford, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York, 4 miles (S.) from Bradford; containing 2330 inhabitants. It is about … the remainder a fertile tract extending southward to the river Derwent. Wykeham Abbey, the seat of the Hon. Marmaduke … Hall has been converted into a farmhouse. The Rev. John Hudson, a learned divine and critic, was born here in 1662. …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… and above the said Brig of Glasgow, on either bank of the river Clyde, possessed by them and their predecessors; with free privilege of the water and river of Clyde, trade and traffic thereof, and others …