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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Aconbury 2 ACONBURY (D.c.). (O.S. 6 in. (a)XXXIX, S.E., (b)XLV, N.E.) Aconbury is a parish 4 m. S. of Hereford. The church and Aconbury camp are the principal monuments. Aconbury, the Parish Church of St …
The Cartulary of Holy Trinity, Aldgate
… p.a. viz. for a tenement which Robert de Raughtone held in the parish of St. Botolph without Algate 3s. 6d.; for a … and for part of a tenement once leased to Henry in le Lane in the parish of St. Mary atte Ax opposite the church of …
The Environs of London
… THIS parish is supposed to have derived its name from the quantity of oak timber which it produced; Ac, in the Saxon language, signifying an oak. The hedge-rows still …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Acton Beauchamp AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN EAST HEREFORDSHIRE ACCREDITED TO A DATE BEFORE 1714 Arranged by Parishes (Unless otherwise stated, the dimensions given in the Inventory are internal. Monuments …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… roughly rectangular tract of countryside running down from the south-facing slopes below Ragleth Hill across Ape Dale … by Mar or Marsh 2 brook. Both brooks were mentioned in 1695 when the bounds of Acton Scott manor, occupying the … was doled. 57 When Nesse Hill died at Alcaston in the spring of 1676 he had corn (worth £5 17 s. 6 d.), wheat (£2 5 …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… rector of Acton, held a house from Peter FitzAlulf. 82 The church served the whole parish until 1872. 83 The benefice was a rectory in the gift of the bishop of London. 84 The church was valued … in fees. 94 The parsonage house, near the Steyne and Horn Lane, was rebuilt c. 1725 by William Hall, rector 1719-26, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Acton Communications COMMUNICATIONS. Acton town lay on the high road from London to Oxford, which was not superseded until Western Avenue was built in the 1920s. Pavage was granted in 1358 and 1363 to men from … prevent robberies. 10 In 1737 it was proposed to use the spring east of Acton town to keep the road clear. 11 The …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… ECONOMIC HISTORY. Agrarian history. Agrarian History The field system of the five-hide holding that became the … estate was distinct from that of Acton manor elsewhere in the parish. The estate, covering over a third of the … warehouses and tanpits, with a piece of land in Diana's Spring field, in order to secure the water supply. 52 The …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Acton Education EDUCATION. Acton had two schoolmasters in 1628. 31 In 1637 Viscountess Conway bequeathed a rent … children at 1 s. a week, which was paid out regularly by the churchwardens until 1816 and thereafter into the National … while Turnham Green's Roman Catholic school moved to Acton Lane in 1864. 44 By 1870 there were eight elementary schools: …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… Hill Park, and Iron-Age coins near Bollo Lane. 71 Although the name Acton, meaning 'oak town', is Anglo-Saxon, it was first recorded as that of a witness, Viel of Acton, in 1181. 72 In the Middle Ages the northern half of the … and outbuildings, the Grange, East Acton House, the Chestnuts, the Lodge, Shakespeare House, Ivy Lodge, and the …