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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the union of Winchester, hundred of Fawley, Winchester and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, of a mile (N. … This is a small parish, north of the road to Alresford, and east of the river Itchin.See Winchester. Winnersh … of Sonning, county of Berks; containing 547 inhabitants, and comprising by measurement 1777 a. 27 p. of land. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… were actually being worked, of which 2 were on the demesne and 1 1/2 was worked by 10 villani; the remaining ploughteam … from Repton (Derb.) by William I. There was 8 a. of meadow and an unspecified area of underwood. Together with a mill, … ploughteams with oxen but no livestock. 3 Medieval Tenants and Grange Over a third of Burton abbey's tenanted land was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… middle-class houses were built along the Ashby road, and there has also been extensive 20thcentury council and private housing development in the south-eastern part of … township. Winshill was a township in Burton ancient parish and later a civil parish covering 1,150 a. (465.4 ha.). 15 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… there was a church at Winstone by the mid 11th century, 33 and in 1101 or 1102 Henry I confirmed an earlier grant by … 34 The living was first recorded as a rectory in 1304 35 and has remained one; it was united with Miserden in 1928 36 … Winstone was joined to the united benefice of Elkstone and Syde. 37 The first recorded presentation to the living …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Winterbourne Steepleton, beside the river, is the original and still the only settlement in the parish and contains a few houses of the 16th and 17th centuries. The parish has 49 round barrows and a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York, 7 miles (N. W. by N.) from … inhabitants. It is situated on the east side of the Aire, and intersected by a tributary of that river. There is a … Adrian, at the commencement of the 2nd century. The Saxons subsequently carried on mining operations here on an …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 … The parish comprises 9483 a. 1 r. 5 p., of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; 186 acres are … is endowed with 21 acres of land. Wisbech (St. Peter and St. Paul) WISBECH ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a sea-port, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Outwell and Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride the Well Stream. Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary in … separating, as it has done, two counties, two dioceses, and in all probability two AngloSaxon kingdoms. The upper … eastern boundary of the parish is also a county boundary, and was in 1934 adjusted to conform with the modern course of …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… lies for the most part on the southern side of the Sence, and the river and its tributaries form the parish boundary on the north and east. The land rises from about 300 ft. in the valley to …