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A Dictionary of London
… of later time called Wolfes Lane, but now out of use (S. 42). "Wolsieslane "lay between the tenement of Sir John de … east side of Paul's wharf hill (i.e. Bennet's Hill), in Castle Baynard Ward, between Paul's Wharf west and Ball Alley east …
A History of the County of Oxford
… is no further record of the under-tenancy, and d'Ivri's successors probably held in demesne. The manor descended with the rest of Roger d'Ivri's lands in the county and in the early 12th century was held … demesne in Wolvercote were granted to St. George's in the Castle, Oxford, before c. 1130, and passed with the other …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Helmsley; containing 337 inhabitants. It comprises … WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of the … prospect, is an ancient earthwork called Woodbury Castle, an inclosure of irregular form, deeply intrenched. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. St. Leonard's priory was dissolved in 1536 and its demesnes were leased … 1539 James Leveson bought the reversion and fee of Abbot's leasehold lands from the Crown. 89 Leveson bought more of … and the materials been employed in building work at Apley Castle. 96 Parts of the priory buildings remained …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… Wood Walton 98. WOOD WALTON (C.c.). (O.S. 6 in. (a)XIII N.E. (b)XIII S.E. (c)XIV N.W.). Wood Walton is a parish and village, 6 m. N.N.W. of Huntingdon. The church and Castle Hill are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical a(1). …
Alumni Oxonienses
… Woodall, William 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, … New England, 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, … 16 May, 1678, aged 17; his father governor of Windsor Castle, and knighted 20 May, 1660; brother of Edward. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… E. division of the county of Gloucester, 2 miles (S. W.) from Stroud; containing 908 inhabitants. This place is … to the Society of Antiquaries by Samuel Lysons, Esq., F.S.A., who published an elaborate account of these relics in … of a road from the highest part of the village, near the Castle inn, through the forest into the Lea Bridge road. The …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of the 10-hide royal manor in 1086 in defiance of Ely's claim, 59 which was never satisfied. The history of the … 1264), lord of a third of the barony of Bourn, had knight's fee in Woodditton until 1228. 60 In the 1230s the holder of … death (as earl of Oxford) in 1400, Saxton descended with Castle Camps in the male line to Richard de Vere (d. 1417), …
A History of the County of Essex
… portion of the village towards the river. The rector's glebe was also at this end of Woodford. The church and … building there until it, in turn, was replaced by Bancroft's school in 1889. 33 After the break-up of the Wanstead House … inns in Woodford in 1753: the George, White Hart, Ship and Castle, New Wells, and Old Wells. 49 The number licensed rose …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Horncastle; containing, in 1841, 307 inhabitants. … Jones, from the drawing-room of which is a view of Windsor Castle, 36 miles distant. The living is a rectory, valued in …