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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… p., of which about 300 acres are woodland, and 1367 common or waste. The Wey and Arun navigation passes through it. The … 8337 inhabitants. One of the earliest crusaders, Elias or Elizeus, founder of the family of Worsley, is said to have … (E.) from Burnley; containing 817 inhabitants. Worsthorn, or Wrdest, belonged to Henry de Wrdest in the reign of …
A History of the County of York
… about the architectural setting for this early worship or about its ornamentation. Three 8th-century archbishops … a nave with aisles, north and south transepts with one, or perhaps two apses on their eastern sides, a central tower … archdeacon about the seat in the choir by securing it with lock and key. 30 Damage to the minster was minimized, largely …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… is one of many small hamlets and farms, each with a more or less rectangular area of land, the boundaries of which are … edge and raised cross on stepped base. All late 13th or early 14th-century. In churchyard, (6) coffin and lid 6 … monuments unless otherwise described are of two storeys, or in a few instances of one storey with attics, and have …
A History of the County of Sussex
… land, later known as the salt green, 60 the salt grass, 61 or Worthing common, gradually came into being south of the … around the Steyne, including the Steyne itself. 11 By 1812 or 1813, however, the bubble of the town's first boom had … permanently. In 1841 the proportion of people aged 60 or over was nearly the same in Worthing (7.33 per cent) as in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of their son Harry, for Anglican married couples, widows, or spinsters resident in Broadwater parish. Six houses were … of the town. In 1973-4 £3 was spent on vouchers for coal or clothes. Maria Steele of Worthing by will proved 1892 gave … £400, subject to a life-interest, the income to buy coal or blankets for the poor of Worthing. In 1896 £360 was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… recorded, 2 and by the mid 17th century the easternmost or east field, the middle field, and the east field next the town or home field lay east of the hamlet, and the west field … holdings of less than 20 a. had common rights for cows or bullocks. 11 There seems never to have been a single …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Road, were also in existence by 1811, 54 and Gravel or Greville Terrace to the south of it apparently by 1813. 55 … called Cross Lane, began at about the same time. Sumner or Summer Lodge, on the east side of Montague Place, was built c. 1800 or soon after, 56 and the west side of Montague Place was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… not more than once a year, and sometimes not for three or four years. Thereafter they were held more intermittently. … A beadle was appointed to police the town in 1803, and a lock-up was provided in Cook's Row off High Street which … given to the town by a resident in 1815, and kept in the lock-up until 1835; thereafter the fire station was at the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Hill, and comprises 4176 acres, of which 563 are common or waste. The soil is various. The lands are watered by two … place is noticed by Leland as giving name to a small beck, or stream, which flowed by it in its course from Panton to … an almshouse for six clergymen's widows, and six widowers or widows, of Wragby, which, in 1707, he endowed with a …