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A History of the County of Surrey
… List of maps Wonersh WONERSH Wonherche (xiv cent.); Ognersh and Ignersh (xvi and xvii cents.). Wonersh is a village about 3 miles south by … 1745. He probably rebuilt the house. Sir William's eldest son, William, is said 10 to have been unmarried. In the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… ridge of downland which rises north-west of Winchester and slopes down towards the north to the tributary of the … parish boundaries from east to west narrow near the river, and here is the village of Wonston, west of which is the … Winchester, the other assessed at the same, held by Robert son of Gerold. Earl Godwin had held both, probably as one …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… the Wickham River, which flows through it from Wycombe and enters the Thames at Bourne End. The area is 3,140 acres, … 1,436 of arable land, 699 of permanent grass, 289 of woods and plantations 1 and 21 acres covered by water, and includes … 45 and Derbyshire. 46 His heir was his younger son Ralph, 47 founder of Thurgarton Priory in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… extra-parochial. 2 The parish lies between the 200-ft. and 300-ft. contour lines, 3 and slopes gently down to the flat water-meadows along the … her husband William Avenel and of Walchelin Hareng 38 her son, presumably by an earlier marriage. Her first husband was …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… The parish of Wood Walton now contains 3,882 acres of land and 16 acres of water. A considerable part of the parish is … Cromwell sold Wood Walton manor in 1568 to Thomas Cotton and William Lawrence he reserved the Isle of Higney 2 and … Walter was holding it when, about 1134, with his wife and son he granted the manor to the Abbey of Ramsey, to hold by …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… mainly in the Vale of Pewsey some 7 miles from Devizes and 3 miles from Pewsey. 1 It is roughly rectangular but with … 1,023 a. are bounded in the south by the road to Pewsey and by the path which was perhaps an older, more direct, road … road. Manors. Saulf held Woodborough T.R.E. 22 Robert son of Gerald held it in 1086 and was succeeded by his nephew …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… WOODCHURCH IS the next parish south-eastward from Halden, and is within the court of the bailiwic of the Seven … being a great part of it; though the manors of Apledore and of Wye claim over some parts of it. This PARISH, which … the 19th year of that reign sold it to John Shellie, whose son John Shelley, esq. of Michelgrove, was created a baronet …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… miles west from Litchfield station on the Didcot, Newbury and Winchester line of the Great Western Railway, and 5 miles north-west from Whitchurch. It contains two … in Kingsclere to Godstow Abbey. 7 He was succeeded by his son, Henry Fitz-Ruald, who was holding Woodcott in 1167, 8 …
A History of the County of Northampton
… ordnance datum. The sub-soil is Upper Lias, Great Oolite and Cornbrash. The river Nene forms the eastern boundary of the parish and the village lies on the slope of the hill rising from the … with the soke of 3 hides of land of which Gislebert, son of Richard, was the tenant. His Northamptonshire lands …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… (xiii cent.). Woodhurst lies to the north of St. Ives and covers an area of 1,823 acres, over two-thirds of which is arable land. The soil is clay and for the greater part the land is above the 100 ft. … Reynald of Ramsey (111430) as a hide of land to Gilbert son of Guy, 7 who had in 112022 surrendered all his lands …