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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from the river Ouse, then called the Wise, and from the Saxon bec, signifying either a running stream, or a tongue of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… (d. 1500), Master of Peterhouse and reputed author of a chronicle of the reign of Edward IV, who became rector in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… lay tenant in Upwell in 1086 was Hermer de Ferrers. His Saxon predecessor Wihenoc had seized ( occupavit) all the six …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… writers of Domesday may have identified the name with the Saxon word 'staith', meaning such parts of the banks of a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… (d. 1500), Master of Peterhouse and reputed author of a chronicle of the reign of Edward IV, John Saul Howson …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… 1920. MANOR. Before the Conquest, WISTOW was held by two Saxon freemen, Edwin and Alferd, who owned also the … and Saddington; it is believed to be on the line of a Saxon road. 12 It crosses both the Sence and the canal by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Tunsted, a hill in the township, is supposed, from its Saxon etymology, viz., "the place of a town," to have been …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… bone combs, perhaps late Romano-British rather than Saxon as originally reported, and human skeletons. TBGAS, 58 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to describe the 10th-century estate suggests that a late Anglo-Saxon estate-centre existed on or near the same site. 7 The … was introduced in the 1830s, 259 though in 1839 the Oxford Chronicle still satirized Witney for its 'dirt, slush, …