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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 9. 9. 7., and has a net income of 158; it is in … same place and year. The town consists principally of a street about a mile long, containing many neat houses built … St. Anne, Coventry. Some slight remains of the conventual buildings are still visible. There is a place of worship for …
A Dictionary of London
… (The), Crooked Lane See Leaden Porch. Swan (The), Old Fish Street In Olde Fish Street, 18 and 27 Eliz. (Lond. I. p.m. III. 82). Seems to … of that market, 1 H. V. (Cal. L. Bk. I., set out in Riley's Mem. p. 598). Burn has a tradesman's token of the "Swan …
A Dictionary of London
… Swan Court, Great Tower Street - Swan's Nest Court Swan Court, Great Tower Street See Black Swan … Swan" (q.v.). Site now occupied by the new Post Office buildings. Swan Yard, Bishopsgate See One Swan Yard. Swann …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Swanage 35 SWANAGE (0278) (O.S. 6 ins. aSZ 07 NW, bSZ 08 SW) The Urban District of … both certainly in existence by the early 14th century. The buildings of the old town are of local stone and are strung out along the line of the High Street running eastwards to the sea. Though Welsh slates for …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to west between 1796 and 1810. A wharf was sited at Honey Street in Woodborough. The railway line running south of the … by Sir William Pynsent (d. 1719). 2 From Sir William's son it passed like Urchfont and much other Pynsent … hundred called Rowborough. 5 Later it became known as King's Rowborough. Included in it were Market Lavington, Great and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… in Buckinghamshire Swanbourne 204. SWANBOURNE. (O.S. 6 in. xix. S.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Swithin, … 17th-century. ConditionGood. Secular Monuments (240) These buildings are almost all of two storeys and most of them are …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for the poor. 82In 1638 various small gifts totalling 4 s. and the interest of £5 were payable to the poor at the … perambulation of the parish. 83Only one of them, Newman's charity, was recorded in the mid 18th century when in … was used in 1914 to buy land on the south side of High Street, presumably the part now Station Road, for four …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… which had founded a priory there by 1086. 38Alan's successors as lords of Swavesey manor claimed the advowson … the vicarage descended with the priory estate to St. Anne's priory, Coventry, 45but between 1341 and 1399 the Crown … restored in 1866-7 21apparently to the designs of G. E. Street. The roofs and tower were repaired, the vestry and a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… had begun. There were also 8 sokemen on Count Alan's manor. Of the 13 hides on his manor 6 were in demesne and … tenants also held 28 burgages of Swavesey manor in Market Street. 72The size and quality of Ryder's Farm, a surviving … Pond in Station Road and the dried-up pond in Market Street appear to be the remains of dock basins; there may …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… ditch) and Over bank between Over and Earith, Swavesey's fens remained flooded longer than those of parishes to the … mentioned in 1392. 1Its northern part forms the village street; Swavesey bridge by the church at its north end … island north of it beyond the navigation drain, and a long street running south along the central ridge. Although it has …