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A History of the County of Essex
… continued to hold 2 ploughs, suggesting a slight increase in the area under cultivation. The 19 sokemen had 2 ploughs. … and wheat, rye, and oats were cultivated in two 26-a. fields: Blakemandown, first recorded in 1322, which survived … and Poleghelegh which bordered Robert of Horkesley's wood in 1290, were probably assarts near the Little …
A History of the County of Essex
… cut through fields. Detached fields totalling 15 a. in Little Horkesley, 34 were transferred to that parish in … which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the … Sundays. 86 The Crown, on the Bures road, recorded as an inn in 1750, was the meeting place of a friendly society …
A History of the County of Essex
… Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. A manor in Wormingford assessed at 1½ hides and 10 a. was held in 1066 by Godwin and in 1086 by Robert Gernon with Ilger as … manors in Mount Bures and West Bergholt. 98 Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, and Henry I granted it to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Worminghall 100. WORMINGHALL. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxi. N.E. (b)xxxi. S.E.) Eccleslastical b(1). … roof is thatched. ConditionPoor. b(8). The Clifden Arms Inn, about 400 yards W.N.W. of the church, is of two storeys. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worplesdon (St. Mary) WORPLESDON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Guildford, First division of the hundred of … through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton College: the … of 1036 a. 2 r. 34 p., which, with the exception of a few fields of arable land, and about 4 acres of plantation, is …
A History of the County of York
… Worship in the Minster WORSHIP IN THE MINSTER The Middle Ages It has been said 1 that the … and the chanting of the schola cantorum. With Paulinus's flight from York after the battle of Hatfield only James …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Worth Matravers 53 WORTH MATRAVERS (9777) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 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. of Swanage. … by impressive flights of strip lynchets of the former open fields of Worth Matravers. In the N. of the parish the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… than from the several dates when they were incorporated in Worthing. Some aspects of the history of Goring after 1929 … c. 25 ft. above sealevel, whose summit was represented in 1978 by Richmond Road and Union Place. 52 The hamlet was … had led to the accumulation of shingle, and Worthing's former fine, hard sands 78 had been replaced by a pebbly …
A History of the County of Sussex
… borough from 1890 to 1974, the second largest town in Sussex, and one of the principal seaside resorts in England and Wales, lies on the south coast roughly mid-way … of Findon and Sompting transferred to Worthing in 1933. O.S. Area Bk. (1876). Worthing Town and Market Act, 43 Geo. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of Worthing called Ordinges was held by 7 alodial tenants. In 1086 it comprised 9 hides and had land for three … eastern edge of the former east field on John Winchester's allotment by 1838. 27 It was called Sea Mill Park farm by … 84 After 1810 a weekly corn market was held in a near-by inn. 85 A fortnightly corn market recorded from 1831 86 was …