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A History of the County of Somerset
… from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. It is 6 km. … His wife kept 180 poultry. 12 Farms and smallholdings were amalgamated but in 1939 only one farm was over 150 a., one … I East. Burke, Peerage (1949), 186; Visit. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 88-9; S.R.O., DD/BW 122. Below, this section. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woolbeding WOOLBEDING The parish, with an area of 1,950 acres and a population in 1931 of 288, is some 4 … R. Mich. 67 Edw. I, no. 36. Pipe R. 3 Ric. I (Pipe R. Soc.), 60. Pipe R. 1 John (Pipe R. Soc.), 128. Ibid. Pipe R. 4 John (Pipe R. Soc.), 142; cf. Bk. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of Somerset; … surgeon and apothecary, and other officers, and for the servants of the establishment, with wards for the reception … the distance is traversed in about ten minutes by the railway. Hulks are moored off Woolwich, for convicts whose …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of Stamford, soke of Peterborough, N. division of the county … It is intersected by the London and South-Western railway, and comprises 1133 a. l r. 13 p., of which 20 acres …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ( d)XXXVII, N.W.) Wootton Fitzpaine is a parish 2 m. N.E. of Lyme Regis. The church and Wootton House are the principal … Parish Church (dedication unknown) stands on the E. side of the parish. The walls are of flint rubble with freestone dressings and the roofs are …
A History of the County of Oxford
… WOOTTON HUNDRED Wootton hundred covered some 70,000 acres of central Oxfordshire, bounded on the east by the river … on the north by its tributary the Swere, and on much of the south by the rivers Thames and Windrush. Part of the western boundary passed through the royal forest of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… WOOTTON RIVERS Wootton Rivers village lies 6 km. south of Marlborough. 91 Besides the village, the parish contains … were reopened in 1973. 7 The Berks. & Hants Extension Railway, built parallel to and immediately south of the … ii, ed. C. D. Ross, p. 433; Reg. Martival (Cant. & York Soc.), iv, p. 123. W.R.O., F 8/200/3/1, no. 36. Geol. Surv. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a … he prevailed upon them to deliver up their arms to his servants, and appeased their animosity. During the … trade. The Spetchley station of the Bristol and Birmingham railway is only four miles east of the city, and in 1845 an …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… WORCESTER Bishops BISHOPS OF WORCESTER Wulfstan Prior of Worcester. Proposed c. 31 … ( Cart. Oseney, ed. H. E. Salter iv (Oxford Hist. Soc. xcvii) 332). Silvester of Evesham 1 Prior of Worcester … ( Reg. Sede Vacante, ed. J. W. Willis Bund (Worcs. Hist. Soc., 1897) p. 1). Commem. 27 Jan. (Worcester obit.: Cat. …