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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… parish, covering 5,947 acres, extends for over 7 miles in a roughly L-shaped strip from the E. Dorset heathland in the … between 400 ft. and 180 ft. above O.D.; the S.E. part, a well-wooded undulating area of Reading Beds and London … Hooper, 1753, with Latin inscription and arms of Hooper, Port and Davenant. Plate: in the church includes undated …
A History of the County of Somerset
… interlock with Charlton Musgrove and Shepton Montague in a manner which suggests that, like them, it was formerly part … of that link were still to be found in the 1080s when a new hundred was created of which Wincanton was the … by the Wincanton trust together with those to Milborne Port and Castle Cary in 1756. 93 In 1818 a new road was built …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Peter and St. Paul) WINCANTON ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of Norton-Ferris, E. division of … some state this to have occurred at Cirencester. In 1747, a considerable portion of the town was destroyed by fire, to …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… two stories undivided by string courses and surmounted by a pyramidal tiled roof into which the roof of the nave cuts. There is a group of three lancets in the east wall of the chancel, … Street, St. Swithun in Shulworth Street, St. John Port Latin in Buckstreet, St. Martin in Minster Street, 8 St. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, well placed on a river navigable by small craft to the foot of St. Giles … to the bishop, as the municipal authorities of the port had it in their power if they desired to hamper the fair … and others, held their tronage and pesage at the southern port and put in no appearance at the fair. 31 But in …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… castles or set saltirewise. Conjecture alone furnishes a description of 'Caer Gwent,' the Celtic Winchester, and … time, the lay-out of the town suggests the survival of a Roman plan. There is the irregular quadrilateral space … custom and subsidy would amount to the said sum, in the port of London before Michaelmas and take them to the staple, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Conqueror's. In the reign of his youngest son we hear 3 of a fine paid by the fullers of Winchester 'ni disfaciant … least as late as the closing years of Henry III. In 1256 a city jury 7 in the case of William Shikehorn declared that … had eloigned themselves and of outlaws seeking the nearest port. Sometimes the aldermanry received a local designation, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wisbech - Wiswell Wisbech (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, … and St. Paul) WISBECH ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a sea-port, borough, market-town, and parish, and the head of a … annually to London. The importance of the place as a sea-port has much increased of late years, and the trade has been …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of St. Peter and St. Paul or standing within a double canopy or. (Granted 1929.) The charter of 1549, 45 … It enabled the Corporation to keep control of the port, in connexion with which they adopted, particularly in … wellintentioned but not always beneficial measures. The port of Wisbech still remains a Corporation enterprise, and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of London and 40 from Cambridge by road. It is one of a series of settlements spaced at two- to three-mile … Guyhirn, where the boundary marched with Whittlesey for a short distance. From at least 1610 the area was divided … doubt to the damage done by railways to the trade of the port. For the next generation the population of Wisbech …