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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… radiating from the centres of the woods as in Geddington Chase and Grafton Park Wood and some were aligned so that the … could be seen along them. Thus a ride through Geddington Chase has Stanion church as a focal point, while another in … cleared for agriculture as at the N. side of Geddington Chase the lines of the rides are visible from the air as …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… a manor. 55 In 1398 it was described as a wood and a free chase 56 and in 1451 as wood and pasture. 57 It was reckoned …
A History of the County of Stafford
… by Cannock forest and on the north-east by Sutton Chase. 1 By the early 13th century there was a wooded park … For the bounds of Cannock forest see ibid. ii. 336. Sutton Chase was mainly in Warws. but extended over parts of SE. … V.C.H. Warws. iv. 235-6; [L. Bracken], Hist. of Forest and Chase of Sutton Coldfield (1860), 135-68; J. T. Gould, Men of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… hundred courts in exchange for yielding up their right of chase in his demesne lands at Stock and at Hookland in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the meadows beside the river, the former woodland of Corse Chase has left its mark on the appearance of the landscape, …
Old and New London
… up. The Saxon monarchs, for the most part, loved the chase, and were devout adherents of the faith; for the one …
Old and New London
… sun and sit towards it; then he had fox-tayles there, to chase away and massacre all the flies and bees." Mr. … brick walls; but in course of time Henry VIII. added a "chase," which he threw out, like a wide open noose, from his … of their "bluff" father's destructiveness, and the whole chase was gradually "disafforested." Still, however, St. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Lake to Penzoy, was still shared with Chedzoy although the chase 17 was worth little and the lord of Chedzoy was …