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A Dictionary of London
… Bennet's Almshouses - Berwardes Lane Bennet's Almshouses On the west side of St. Peter's Hill, Upper Thames Street, a few doors from No. … Benet, Paul's Wharf. Benson's Alley In the parish of St. Martin within Ludgate, in the Ward of Farringdon Within, 1626 …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… village of Benson - by far the most populous settlement in Ewelme hundred - lies in the clay vale close to the River … with RAF Brize Norton, developed into one of Oxfordshire's two main military air stations. The extended airfield now … retained small pieces of detached meadow in Drayton St Leonard. 13 An independent manor at Fifield formed a …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of Ironbridge. 77 The former parish is largely rural, but in earlier centuries its extensive reserves of coal, … civil parish of Much Wenlock. 85 To the south Benthall's boundary followed the Wenlock-Broseley road before swinging … peas, vetches, and hay (£64). Flax and hemp worth £5 and 8 st. of wool (£4) were stored in Benthall Hall. 68 Arthur …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Upper division of the hundred of Dudstone and King's Barton, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 4 miles … S.) from Cheltenham; containing 236 inhabitants. Bentham (St. John the Baptist) BENTHAM ( St. John the Baptist), a … 26 per annum. A church existed at Apton, dedicated to St. Martin, but there are no remains of it. Bergholt, East (St. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… south and east. The village, which is described by Warner in the 18th century as 'a delightful, pleasant and neat … for life, with remainder to the bishop and church of St. Peter, Winchester. 11 In 909 Edward the Elder confirmed a … de Ou and William were holding 1 hide 1 virgate worth 50 s. and l hides worth 20 s. respectively. 14 From this date …
A History of the County of Sussex
… is a parish of 1,910 acres, with a population of 292 in 1931, lying south of Midhurst, to which the northern part … in 1428 Thomas Torrell was returned as holding 1 knight's fee in Bepton, formerly of Henry Darcy and Philip … the Dissolution, 52 and this was bought in 1553 by Oliver St. John and Robert Thorneton, 53 land speculators. In 1582 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Berden 9. BERDEN. (A.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)xiii. N.W. (b)xiii. S.W. (c)xiii. S.E.) Berden is … the 16th century. Ecclesiastical b (1). Parish Church of St. Nicholas stands on the W. side of the village. The walls … square at the top, and circular at the bottom. b(10). Martin's Farm, now two tenements, 40 yards W. of (9), is of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Bere Regis 3 BERE REGIS (8494) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 88 NE, bSY 89 SW, cSY 89 NW, dSY 89 SE, eSY 89 … is on Chalk rising to just over 300 ft. above O.D. and in places cut into by dry valleys draining into the Milborne … and its land to the N., now incorporated within Milborne St. Andrew parish. St John's Church, Bere Regis: …
Old and New London
… by Pope in the following lines: Argyll, the state's whole thunder born to wield, And shake alike the senate and … of all, there is the lovely portrait of Mrs. Sheridan, as St. Cecilia, painted by Reynolds." It may recall with some … of the present century, a singular character, one Martin Van Butchell, a quack doctor and dentist of celebrity, …
Survey of London
… more to fortuitous circumstances than design. When in 1696 the third Lord Berkeley of Stratton sold Berkeley … estate was laid out for speculative building in the 1730's and 1740's and the principal developers, Edward Cock and … with these houses was Alexander Mingay, bricklayer, of St. James's, who built a sewer in the square on behalf of …