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A History of the County of York
… York in 1483, ordered the foundation of a college of a hundred chaplains in the minster. The fabric roll for 1485 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 97 NE, bSY 98 SE) Worth Matravers, a parish covering 2,700 acres, lies in the S. part of the Isle of Purbeck, 3 miles W. … so defined are approximately as follows: Renscombe, 730 acres; Weston, 210 acres; Worth, 710 acres; and Eastington, 330 acres. Remains …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Tarring before c. 1900 is treated below, under Tarring hundred. The history of Worthing hamlet and town follows that …
A History of the County of Sussex
… damage by the sea which in 1868-9 washed away several hundred yards of the road. 68 In 1869 the trustees' functions …
A History of the County of Sussex
… bad smells from the drains. 2 In 1850 there were several hundred cesspools in the town, which had to be emptied … and the beadle was made headborough of Brightford hundred. A second headborough appointed at the same date was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 19 inhabitants. It comprises about 600 acres of land, set out in three farms. Wotton (St. John the … a parish, in the union of Dorking, First division of the hundred of Wotton, W. division of Surrey, 3 miles (W. S. W.) … 763 inhabitants. This parish, which gives name to the hundred, is about nine miles in length and one mile in …
A History of the County of Rutland
… Wrandike hundred THE HUNDRED OF WRANDIKE containing the parishes of Barrowden; … which Wrandike, or, as it is sometimes called, Barrowden Hundred, is composed formed the Hundred of Hwicceslea West …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bourn WRECKLESHAM and BOURN, tythings, in the parish and hundred of Farnham, W. division of Surrey, 1 mile (S. W. by … the stream of the Wreigh or Wreath. It comprises about 395 acres, of which two-thirds are arable, and the remainder fine … WRENBURY ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union and hundred of Nantwich, S. division of the county of Chester; …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… berewicks mentioned in 1086. It was a five-hide unit and a hundred meeting place. 7 Place-name evidence, reinforcing … and Other Est. V.C.H. Salop. i. 315, 332; above, Bradford hundred. E. Ekwall, Concise Oxf. Dict. Eng. P.N. (4th edn.), …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred of South Bradford, N. division of Salop, 2 miles (W. … union of Wellington, Wellington division of the hundred of South Bradford, N. division of Salop; containing … Stane-street passed through it. The parish comprises 8878 acres, of which 1704 are in wood. Woodland, or Week, now only …