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A History of the County of Berkshire
… 90 The church of St. Mary, which stood on the east side of Fish Street, afterwards called St. Mary's Street, 91 was … of St. John-upon-the-water was in Thames Street, near the river. It belonged to the priory of Holy Trinity from 1160 97 … St. Johns-super-Aquam stretching from Thames Street to the river is referred to in 1550 and 1764. 100 The church of St. …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… to Wallingford Castle in 1300. 13 One of these was in the river close under the castle, the second and third, known as … shops or stalls beneath it; there was a corn market, and a fish market held in the parish of St. Mary-the-Less. There … the fine quality of its barley, and its position on the river made Wallingford a good centre for the trade. The trade …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… preserves its primitive form as a parallelogram with the river as its eastern base, protected on the three other sides … In the parallel thoroughfare, St. Mary's Street (formerly Fish Street), from High Street to the south gate 5 (where the … from its southern end St. Leonard's Lane (formerly Little Fish Street) 12 leads along the line of the southern …
A History of the County of Warwick
… land to the north and east and on the south side of the River Avon. One medieval institution, the chantry chapel at … of Guy's Cliffe, standing on a steep slope overlooking the River Avon, 1½ mile north-east of the town, is dedicated to …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 30 It seems likely that the Templars' estate, south of the River Avon, was consolidated and inclosed after it had passed … inclosed and lying between the old Banbury road and the river. Three closes of pasture contained together 89 acres …
A History of the County of Warwick
… commodities came to be associated with particular fairs: fish was the speciality of the March fair, cheese and cattle … through the clerk of the market was retained, the fish and flesh taster being presented by him to the grand … 24 The supply of provisions, with the exception of fish, was plentiful, and the income from rents for market …
A History of the County of Warwick
… ran southwards along the Avon, left it to follow the River Learm for nearly a mile, ran along a small stream …
A History of the County of Warwick
… noticeable are the gardens between West Gate and the river to the south-west of the castle, later to become part …
A History of the County of Warwick
… town. 26 The site was possibly on the south side of the river, on one of the terraces of sand and gravel that occur … reach over 200 feet, and one of these, lying close to the river, was chosen as the site of the burh. This is an outlier … of Mercia against the Danes; 29 it commanded both the river valley and the crossing, and it was strategically well …
A History of the County of Warwick
… grounds deprived the inhabitants of their access to the river from Sanders Row to High Ladsome in 1744, and to Low … Field, lay mostly to the south of the hamlet, between the river and a lane leading due south towards Barford mill. … would probably have involved alterations to the existing fish-ponds (see below). Either Henry Wise or his son Matthew …