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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( 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 … Wyndcaleton, and derived that name from its situation on the windings of the river Cale, by which it is bounded on …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… with Winchester in general. 1. St. John's Hospital and the Allied Charities. The history of St. John's Hospital in its religious capacity and after … Salisbury; in 1700, Frederick Tilney, 100 cash to be lent on loan; in 1701, William Over, rent-charge of 22 issuing out …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, well placed on a river navigable by small craft to the foot of St. Giles …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Hyde abbey HYDE ABBEY Winchester: Hyde Abbey Gateway In the most northerly of the old suburbs of the city, St. Bartholomew, Hyde Street, … orders separated by a hollow with a rebate for the doors on its inner face. The inner arch is of plainer character, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the … to the actual early constitution of the borough. The light on its existence that should come from the Domesday Survey is … mayor and aldermen of the city by publishing a scandalous libel against them, for which he acknowledged himself …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be … castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest Edward the Confessor had … marriage of Edward the Black Prince with his cousin Joan Countess of Kent took place at Windsor on 10 October 1361. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Winshill Introduction Introduction Lying on what was formerly the Derbyshire side of the river Trent, Winshill was transformed in the mid 19th …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… WINTERBORNE CAME (7088) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 68 NE, bSY 78 NW) The parish of Winterborne Came, covering some 1,560 acres … to a height of nearly 500 ft. It is almost entirely on Chalk. Within the boundary of the modern parish there were … impaling Baylie quarterly; on S. wall, (5) to Caroline, Countess of Portarlington, 1813, stone tablet similar to (1), …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wisbech (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) … Oswi, and Leoflede, daughter of Brithnod the first abbot, on the admission into that monastery of their son Ailwin, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride the Well Stream. Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and … and Upwell has been illustrated at least twice in books on the English countryside. 5 William Watson's description, … married George Fielding 17th Earl of Desmond 20 and as Countess of Desmond is recorded in 1649 as holding 200 acres …