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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… prince, Caroilius, and subsequently a seat of the West Saxon kings. It was a place of importance for several … and a great variety of other articles of British, Saxon, Danish, or Norman manufacture, have been discovered at … of its situation near to, or between, two rivers. The Saxon appellation of Vinburnan, whence the present name is …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to Wilton or to Wiltshire. When about 909 a new West Saxon bishopric covering at first Wiltshire alone, and later … to Old Salisbury. 5 In all other respects, however, Anglo-Saxon Wilton was of supreme importance. The late 9th century … flumine tota paga illa nominatur'. 7 References to Anglo-Saxon Wilton, scanty though they are, reveal all the more …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of a market in Wilton probably dates from the Anglo-Saxon period, for conditions of local trade, as shewn above, … in the 10th century may be inferred from the bounds of a Saxon land grant, dated c. 956, 67 in which the boundary at … mill occupied the same site as that mentioned above in the Saxon land charter. In 12489 Agnes, wife of Sabar of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… have been the third mayor's seal, then described as 'two Saxon kings sejant in Gothic niches, crowned, with sceptres …
The Environs of London
… records in which the name of Wimbaldus occurs. Dune in the Saxon language signifies a hill. Situation, boundaries, and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… town was confined to the W. bank of the Allen and in Saxon times it occupied only a small area in the immediate … East Borough and West Borough, extending N. from the Saxon nucleus. No doubt one of these streets represents the … part of the town Apart from the Minster, a church of Saxon origin enlarged in the 12th and 13th centuries, little …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… a depth of 10 ft. Near the surface was an intrusive pagan Saxon female inhumation accompaned by a gilt button-brooch, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This place was formerly called Wincelcumb (from the Saxon Wincel, a corner, and comb, a valley), of which its … Britons in the New Forest, it became the capital of the Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and the residence of the conqueror, … a Pagan temple, and appropriated to the service of the Saxon deities. In 635, St. Birinus, whom Pope Honorius had …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… material of the 4th century has been found embodied in a Saxon rampart N. of the town (SP 024284), 3 and fragments of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… the most interesting things in the church and probably of Saxon date, like those at Carhampton and Warnford. The altar …