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A History of the County of Hertford
… with Harpenden Churches and charities CHURCHES The church of ST. HELEN, 196 WHEATHAMPSTEAD, stands in the midst of the village, surrounded by a large churchyard with a … the official trustees, and under an order of the Charity Commissioners dated 5 August, 1902, the several charities are …
A History of the County of Hertford
… xiii cent. to xvi cent.; Harden, xvii cent. The old parish of Wheathampstead, now divided into the separate parishes of Wheathampstead and Harpenden, is situated at the … Harpenden from the sixteenth century. As early as 1650 the commissioners appointed by the Parliament to inquire into the …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Wheathampstead with Harpenden Manors MANORS The manor of WHEATHAMPSTEAD was ancient demesne of the crown, 18 and was granted in words that amounted to a … the dean and chapter were reinstated. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners now hold the manors on behalf of the dean and …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… THE FORMER tiny ancient parish, 1 a detached part of Whitley hundred because of its pre-Conquest ownership by Glastonbury abbey, 2 occupied the western end of a low ridge between the rivers Brue and Cary to the north …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… Wheldrake WHELDRAKE The village of Wheldrake, an Anglian settlement, lies on the Escrick … 79 About 430 a. there were sold by the parliamentary commissioners in 1652 80 but were recovered at the … the chapter's property was vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 81 and they sold 267 a. to Jane Baillie in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WHICHAM ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Bootle, Allerdale ward above Derwent, W. division of Cumberland, 10 miles (S. S. E.) from Ravenglass; … 299 inhabitants. It comprises by admeasurement 6970 acres, of which 2463 are arable, 7 woodland, and about 4500 common …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… at this point deviates from the usual straight alignment of Watling Street. Much of the N. boundary follows a S.W.-flowing tributary of the R. Nene, which then turns S. through the W. part of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WHITACRE, NETHER ( St. Giles), a parish, in the union of Meriden, Coleshill division of the hundred of Hemlingford, … The Brandling Junction, and the Pontop and South Shields, railways, pass through several detached parts of the parish; … The affairs of the town are under the superintendence of commissioners appointed by act of parliament for its …
A History of the County of Essex
… agriculturalists distinguished from the better soil of Earls Colne and Colne Engaine. 49Woodland which had probably covered much of the parish in the Anglo-Saxon period was apparently being … 51The demesne arable may have already lain in the centre of the later parish, extending from the Colchester road to …
A History of the County of Essex
… White Colne Introduction WHITE COLNE THE ancient parish of White Colne (1,466 a. or 593 ha.), 51which took its name … from its Domesday tenant Miblanc, lies on the north bank of the river Colne c. 12 miles west of Colchester and c. 4 … Hunt for Machinery, 37-8; D. I. Gordon, Regional Hist. Railways of G.B. v (Eastern Counties), 158. E. P. Willingham, …