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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 4 miles (W.) from Brandon-Ferry. The parish is bounded on the south by the Lesser Ouse, which separates it from the … Berks canal near Swindon, and terminates in the Thames and Severn canal at Weymoor Bridge, in the parish of Latton, … and distributed among the poor of Wily, Steeple-Langford, Upton, Padworth, and Tisbury. Christopher Willoughby, in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… originally belonged to the family of Scudamore of Upton, 7 but by 1298 had descended to the family of Bavant. 8 … near the former site of the church. 13 It was situated on the south side of South Street towards Bull Bridge, 14 but … was returned as one of those in the diocese not served on account of its ruinous condition. 18 Ten years later, in …
Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516
… 1200 97.5 385700 158100 Upavon 1220 1262 70 413600 155100 Upton Scudamore 1267 1267 81 386500 147600 Wanborough 1252 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyndcaleton, and derived that name from its situation on the windings of the river Cale, by which it is bounded on the west. It was the scene of many sanguinary conflicts … Belgae between Anton, or the Southampton river, and the Severn, and placed garrisons in them, as a defence from the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest Edward the Confessor had … been held by Queen Jane Seymour; the manors of Taplow and Upton, with the parsonage of Upton, which had belonged to the monastery of Merton; the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was held by Ansfrid de Cormeilles who had received it on his marriage to a niece of Walter de Lacy, 45 although … manor that Despenser acquired, reverting to the Crown on the death of Catherine Parr in 1548. 61 The Crown sold the … his debts. It was bought in 1793 by Richard Haviland of Upton St. Leonards, who sold it to Joseph Pitt of Cirencester …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 818 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the river Colne, comprises about 7000 acres: the soil is … How, his wife, and nine children, in a small cross aisle on the south side of the church, the burial-place of the … net income, 80; patron and appropriator, the Rector of Upton Magna: there is a parsonage-house, and the glebe …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town stands at an early crossing of the river Windrush, on a limestone cornbrash island formerly lying between two … suggests that a late Anglo-Saxon estate-centre existed on or near the same site. 7 The precise location and … 89 From 178990 the rival Oxford canal and Thames and Severn canal, with wharfs at Lechlade (Glos.), Radcot, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… stretching across the parish from the river Wye to the Severn. Towards the Wye the parish is bounded by a range of … containing 1120 inhabitants. The parish is bounded on the east by a portion of the county of Bedford, and … 427 inhabitants. It is situated near the Severn, on the road between Shrewsbury and Welshpool, from which …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… north from Watling Street to Wombridge priory, perhaps on the line of the later Hadley Road. Priorslee probably grew … the Ketley Canal before passing through Oakengates to the Severn. The coalfield was given access to the county town by … Wood. 80 A horse-drawn railway was built in 1747 on the Charltons' Oakengates estate from the Horsepasture …