Search
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Green came to tea. Very fine. In evening went to Battersea Park, then over the old bridge to Chelsea, thence over the … Grounds and was very successful in bowling; getting 8 or 10 wickets, but in batting, alas! 0. 9. [Blank] 10. … Fine. 15. Went to SPCK to meet Mr Isaacs, waited until the place was shut up and he did not come. Fine. Went in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a Roman fort on the Leicestershire boundary, north of this place. Wichaugh WICHAUGH, a township, in the parish of … (N. E.) from Lichfield; containing 155 inhabitants. This place was twice honoured by a visit from James I., who held a … coins have been found in the neighbourhood, and in the park are vestiges of an encampment. Wick WICK, a hamlet, in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… E. by E.) from Thurso, and 276 (N.) from Edinburgh. This place, of which the name, in the Celtic language, signifies a village or small town on an arm of the sea, appears to have been … lands here, and the Keiths, a sanguinary conflict took place on the moors of Tannach, in this parish, in which the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… (SP 742393 and 742392); no buildings were shown in either place in 1717. The site of the parish church of Wyke Hamon, … air photographs in NMR) Fig. 126 Wicken (5) Moat b(6) Deer Park (centred SP 738385; Fig. 125), lay in the W. of the … Ridge-and-furrow of these fields exists on the ground or can be traced on air photographs over large parts of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… divided in the 17th century. Wicken's relative poverty or isolation has led to its retaining several late medieval … houses and cottages, often with dormers, some wholly or partly brick-cased. One east of Cross Green still has a … Of the dwellings reported in 1666-74, 50-55 had only one or two hearths each, and only 5-6 had five or more. 56 After …
A History of the County of Northampton
… 40 by the union of two previously separate parishes, Wick (or Wyke) Dive and Wick Hamon, which were already distinct … on 7 May 1801. 65 In July that year Mrs. Prowse of Wicken Park took two of her nieces on a trip on the canal through … and the building of a new mansion in the park, in place of the old manor house near the church. 98 After Hosier …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… well-behaved, Anglican widows and widowers, aged over 60 or disabled. From any surplus income after maintenance costs, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… being granted for terms ranging from 37 years up to ten or twenty. 72 No customary holdings were as yet permanently … included four called the Stockings (12 a.). The 30-a. 'New Park' of 'low meadow fen ground' was presumably a later … of the river, called in the mid 17th century mowing fens or Lammas grounds, were still in the early 19th mown by their …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… bylaws to regulate farming by assent of the whole vill or homage, and appointed pairs of aletasters, and sometimes …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… village. In 1232 Beatrice added another 55 a. with 'the place called Spinetum'. 88 Her successor Wimar of Thornton … of carved stonework from the priory, 14th-century or earlier, including sections of quatrefoil piers, capitals, …