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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 … which, owned by the Saxon thegn Brictric, was in Blacklow hundred. Brictric continued to hold that estate as a tenant …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's … Newmarket was separated from its parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as a … long narrow strip. Unlike the parishes of Radfield hundred to its west, Woodditton does not reach the Suffolk …
The Environs of London
… in the wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half from Whitechapel church. The parish is bounded by Chigwell, Chingford, Walthamstow, Wanstead, and Barking. It contains about 2000 acres of land, of which …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The … is bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to … Judges of Eng. vii. 134. Hoare, Mod. Wilts. Underditch Hundred, 145; W.N. & Q. vi. 387. Memorial in Woodford church; …
A History of the County of Essex
… the economic life of the village, providing timber and some pasture, while restricting the amount of arable … was densely wooded. 1 Monkhams was originally all wood, and there also pannage was important. 2 Some clearances had … were made to inclose and clear it in 1670 and again a hundred years later. Neither attempt was wholly successful, …
A History of the County of Essex
… of the City of London, at the northern end of Becontree hundred. Its western and northern boundaries ran through Epping Forest, part of … was amalgamated with that of Wanstead, to the south, and in 1937 the borough of Wanstead and Woodford was formed. …
A History of the County of Essex
… held courts for Woodford. He took the profits of justice 1 and, from the 13th century at least, held a view of … that the farmer of Woodford manor should make suit at her hundred court. He claimed that, because of the annual payment of 4 s. to the exchequer, and references in the great roll of 1287 and 1344, Woodford …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres. Here is a mineral spring, with baths, an hotel, and other accommodations for visiters. The water resembles … 1; bicarbonate of soda, 6; iodine, 0. 55; bromine, 8. 35; and of potash, a trace: its specific gravity is 1016. The … a hamlet, in the parish of Waddesdon, union of Aylesbury, hundred of Ashendon, county of Buckingham, 8 miles (W. N. W.) …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… (D.d.). (O.S. 6 in. XIX N.W.). Woodhurst is a parish and village 3 m. N. of St. Ives. The Chapel of St. John the Baptist and the Manor Farm are the principal monuments. … m. E.N.E. of the chapel. (3). Stone, said to have been the hundred-stone and called the Abbot's Chair (Plate 142), on …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of Rapsgate, Eastern division of the county of … is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 1. 10., and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes have been commuted for 482, and the glebe comprises 18 acres. The church is principally …