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The Environs of London
… the marshes, is principally gravel. At the east end of the town is a chalk-pit, which has a stratum abounding with the … employment for a great number of poor women in the town. Convict-hulks. Two hulks are stationed in the river at …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (All Saints) WOOTTON - BASSETT ( All Saints), a market-town and parish, and formerly a representative borough, in … Conquest, called Wodeton, from wode, a wood, and tun, a town. About a century after that period, it became the … Bassett, from whom it derived the adjunct to its name. The town is pleasantly situated on elevated ground, commanding …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Rivers manor were entitled to benefit from the Broad Town charity for apprenticing endowed by Sarah, duchess of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Hardicanute, having plundered and set fire to the town, attacked the inhabitants in their place of refuge; but … murder of her son, was taken from a convent near that town, into which she had entered the day after the battle, by … 500 marks was paid to the king for the redemption of the town. In 1486, Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother, Lord …
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
… 1301-1400 1401-1516 1334 Lay Subsidy The valuation of the town in the Lay Subsidy of 1334 Taxation value of the market town 0-100 101-200 201-300 301-400 401+ X co ordinate Y co …