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A History of the County of Essex
… the lords of Wivenhoe manor were entitled to free warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with … a fire brigade of eleven men, which at first stored its barrow, bucket, and hoses at 30 Alma Street, and by 1932 in a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Cutteslowe, King's Weir, and Pixey Mead were incorporated in the later 19th century. The south-eastern part of the … Wolvercote, was absorbed into the built-up area of Oxford in the earlier 20th century, and in 1929 the whole of the … on the boundary between Cutteslowe and Water Eaton. 90 The barrow from which Cutteslowe takes its name was associated …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… WOODCHESTER (11 miles W. of Cirencester) A silver spoon in the Ashmolean Museum was recovered from West Park (SO 8101) in 1850. 1 A coin of Germanicus and Romano-British pottery found in 1863 in the long barrow on Bown Hill, at SO 82300180, was taken to Cheltenham …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… They are situated on Boulder Clay at 220 ft. above OD and in a line orientated N.N.W.-S.S.E. Each barrow touches its neighbour and there are no traces of … b(6) Roman building (SP 98857738), 250 m. N.E. of (5) in a similar position. A quantity of building debris …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of … Lincoln, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Horncastle; containing, in 1841, 307 inhabitants. This parish, along the western … WOODHOUSE, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Barrow-upon-Soar, hundred of West Goscote, N. division of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… SU 00 NE, SU 00 NW, SU 01 SW) Woodlands covers 2,594 acres in a broad strip of land extending from the R. Allen in the W. to the Dorset Heathlands in the E. From the Allen … ditches on air photographs (N.M.R., SU 0209/5/18687). (26) Barrow (02180918), with two concentric ditches; overall diam. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woodyates, West Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a tything, in the parish of North Cerney, union of Winchcomb, hundred of … 256 inhabitants. Woodmancote WOODMANCOTE, a parish, in the union of Steyning, hundred of Tipnoak, rape of … runs through the parish. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 13. 1. 10., and in the patronage of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… It slopes gently N. from about 200 ft. above O.D. in the S. to 120 ft. along the Frome. The S. half is all on … N. is largely on a wide gravel river terrace. Two holdings in Woodsford, presumably East Woodsford and West Woodsford, are listed in Domesday Book. The former is the present village and the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the S.W., through areas on Reading Beds and London Clay, … area of heathland on Bagshot Beds. Recent boundary changes in the S.W. have resulted in considerable gains, including the hamlet of East Burton, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY: Agriculture. In 1086 there was no demesne land in either Woolaston manor or Aluredston, though the king held … other papers were manufactured. It was owned by Richard Barrow (d. 1777), and by 1815 had passed to John Barrow. 91 …