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A History of the County of Somerset
… rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from east to west. Its northern and eastern boundaries were marked by watercourses including … Jacob (1813-62) were born in Woolavington, the younger sons of the vicar, Stephen Jacob. 8 In 1922 the whisky …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WOOLBEDING The parish, with an area of 1,950 acres and a population in 1931 of 288, is some 4 miles from north … 2 miles. The northern half of the parish is largely common and woodland, and there is another large block of woodland at its southern …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 a. … is celebrated for a remarkably fine vein of brick-earth, and the white bricks made here are in great estimation. One … South Sea annuities, for educating and clothing orphan sons of shipwrights of the dockyard, and for apprenticing …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Ancient and historical monuments in east London Woolwich 12. … Woolwich consists of the parishes of Woolwich, Plumstead and Eltham. The principal monuments are Eltham Palace, Well Hall and Eltham Lodge. Ecclesiastical a(1) Parish Church of St. …
The Environs of London
… to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on … the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, and at the distance of nine miles from London. The parish is … educating, clothing, and putting out apprentice, six boys, sons of shipwrights who have served their apprenticeship in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to St. Mary, existed here in the time of Henry I., and was united in the reign of Edward III. to the convent of Our Lady St. Mary and St. Michael, at Stamford-Baron. Wootton (St. Mary) … Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Redbornestoke, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (S. W.) from Bedford; …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… name is the surname of lords of the principal manor and was in use in the 14th century. 93 In 1300 the land between the eastern arms at the north and south ends of the parish, which either was or might soon … Richard's son John 44 (d. c. 1314), and in turn to John's sons Thomas, 45 a minor, 46 and John, who, while a minor, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, Worcester and W. divisions of the county, 111 miles (N. W. by W.) from … magistrates is 15. The freedom is inherited by the eldest sons of freemen, or acquired by servitude. The city first …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… 1203 (Innocent III, Cal. Letters no. 472). Sampson Can. and treas. of Bayeux, and king's chapl. (Will. Malmesbury, G.P. p. 289; Regesta 1 no. 147). El. 1096, ordained dcn. and pr. 7 June, cons. 8 June 1096 (Eadmer, H.N. p. 74). 1 D. …