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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… N. division of the county of Northampton, 6 miles (N. W. by N.) from Wansford; containing 68 inhabitants. A small … hundred of Hormer, county of Berks, 3 miles (N. W. by N.) from Abingdon; containing 344 inhabitants. The parish … by the Motherbank, and on the east by an inlet of the sea, across which is a narrow causeway called Wootton bridge, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester and W. divisions of the county, 111 miles (N. W. by W.) from London; containing 25,401 inhabitants. This … which is unquestionably of great antiquity, is enumerated by Nennius under the name of Caer Guorangon in his catalogue … (St. Michael) WORKINGTON ( St. Michael), a market-town, sea-port, and parish, in the union of Cockermouth, Allerdale …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… which I am now in; who for my loyalty to the King, was by the great tyrant (Cromwell) banished, and sent into the … lately from thence (in a shipp bound for London) was by a tempest at sea droven into Wales, amongst a salvadge people who had noe …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of Bratforton in the said county, doe certifie by these presentes, that whereas at Michaelmas sessions last, … in this county Humbly sheweth That your peticioner by reason of his great age and hard [labour?] (being 78 years … indisposition of body, contracted by long lying out at sea in a very sickly ship about one year before his …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… church of St. Cuthbert of Wirkesop, to which he afterwards by the concession and consideration of Emme his wife, and of sons (or children,) granted and confirmed by his [breve] writing, his gift which he had made to God and … should have, and wheresoever on this side or beyond the sea. He survived not very long, for Raph Murdac the sheriff, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… wapentake of Staincross, W. riding of York, 3 miles (S. by E.) from Barnsley; containing 3800 inhabitants. The … the crown, and an annuity of 13. 6. 8. bequeathed in 1631 by John Rayney, who also endowed a lectureship in the chapel … of Henry IV. The navigable river Ant, which joins the sea at Yarmouth, passes through the parish. A fair for cattle …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Head across an almost flat limestone tableland formed by the underlying Portland and Purbeck Beds, between 350 ft. and 450 ft. above O.D., drained by three deeply cut valleys in which small streams flow S. to the sea. In the W. is Hill Bottom, and in the E. are Winspit and …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and thereafter with that of the town as it was enlarged by the successive boundary changes recorded above. … recorded in 1300 53 and 1493, 54 which was a member of Shoreham port in 1324. 55 The coastline of Worthing offers … was removed, at great expense, before 1802. 66 By 1814 the sea had reached the mainland, where the land on which the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… hamlet of Worthing before c. 1800 was linked to Broadwater by a road following the line of the modern road, and by a … It was damaged by frost 63 and by the encroachment of the sea, and when it was turnpiked in 1826 the trustees were also … run in 1843, 78 when there were coaches and omnibuses to Shoreham station, 79 and the second in 1845, shortly before …