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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Worth Matravers 53 WORTH MATRAVERS (9777) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 97 NE, bSY 98 SE) Worth Matravers, a parish covering 2,700 acres, lies in the S. part of the Isle of Purbeck, 3 miles W. of Swanage. It stretches N.N.E. from the steep cliffs of St. Aldhelm's Head across an almost flat limestone tableland formed by …
A History of the County of Sussex
… had led to the accumulation of shingle, and Worthing's former fine, hard sands 78 had been replaced by a pebbly … London tea merchant, 8 William France, upholsterer to the king, who built the first houses in Trafalgar Place, 9 and … Edward Ogle, a London business man, 10 known locally as 'King Ogle', who owned the Warwick House estate and other …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Montague streets north-south. 48 Bedford Row and Copping's Row, later Marine Place, south of Warwick Street, were … Place was built between 1802 and 1805. 57 Further west King's Row and Prospect Place were recorded in 1807, 58 Prospect …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and the other, called Mordinges, had been held of the king in 1066 by Lewin. 48 The manor afterwards formed part of … later held the manor until the Dissolution. 54 In 1536 the king granted it to Sir William Fitzwilliam, treasurer of his … Anthony (d. 1629), and then successively to Anthony's son (d. 1682) and grandson (d. 1708), both named Francis, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the wapentake of Skyrack, W. riding of York, 3 miles (S.) from Wetherby; containing 19 inhabitants. It comprises … and Highgate. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 12. 18. 9., and in the patronage of William … a garrison was maintained here in the interest of the king. The town is situated on a gentle eminence, and consists …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ward, E. division of the county of Cumberland, 5 miles (S. E. by S.) from Carlisle; containing 151 inhabitants. The … adjoining collieries, one of which, formerly called the King's pit of Sheriff Hill, but now the Stormount Main … annexed to that of Ashwellthorpe, and valued in the king's books at 10: the tithes have been commuted for 400, …
A Dictionary of London
… VI. 1547 (Lond. I. p.m. I. 100). No later record. Wrestler's Court South out of London Wall, west of Carpenters' Hall (O. and M 1677-Boyle, 1799). Called "Wrestley's Court "in Strype, 1755 and Boyle. Had houses only on the … of them in 1301 "The Newemeyne" (New Household). The King's Society and The Society of Shipup (Riley Mem. xxj.). …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Writtle 109. WRITTLE. (E.c.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)xliii. S.E. (b)lii. N.W. (c)lii. N.E. (d)li. S.E. … Secular Homestead Moats. c(3). At site called King John's Palace, 700 yards N. of the church, is well … windows and cambered tie-beams with arched braces and one king-post. ConditionGood. Monuments (1324). The following …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the original line of Watling Street: the boundary - the 'king's boundary' - diverged northwards from the road at Overley … in 1841, 1,380 in 1961, and 2,105 in 1981, 2 Admaston's growth largely accounting for an increase in the 1960s. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… air. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 7. 8. 6., and in the patronage of the Crown. The … 335 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 3. 7. 8., and in the gift of the Crown; net …