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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Trumpington TRUMPINGTON The ancient parish of Trumpington 1 lay immediately south of … triangular in shape, before 1900 it covered 2,312 a. 2 To the west it was bounded by the river Cam or Granta, and to … From Robert Barne it passed to Thomas Gardiner, a London goldsmith. 242 In 1571 he forfeited it to the Crown for his …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Tudeley TUDELEY LIES the adjoining parish eastward from Tunbridge. It is called in Domesday, TIVELELE, and in the Textus Rossensis, THUDELEI. It is a very obscure and … with which William the Conqueror enriched his halfbrother Odo, the great bishop of Baieux, and earl of Kent, under the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Tuiwella (xi cent.); Twywelle, Twiwell (xii cent.). The parish of Twywell is low-lying, nowhere rising over 300 ft. above the Ordnance datum. The subsoil is Great and Inferior Oolite. … Sir William assigned the manor to John Hay, and Abbot Odo (1293 1305) gave certain lands in it to the convent, for …
Magna Britannia
… or Uffculm UFFCULME, or UFFCULM, a decayed market-town, in the hundred of Bampton and in the deanery of Tiverton, lies on the borders of … given with the advowson of the church, by William, son of Odo, to the prior and convent of Taunton. 46 After the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Great, and High Hardres, and sometimes Much Hardres, lies the next parish south-eastward from Lower Hardres. The greatest part of it in the upper half hundred of Bridge, … of taking that survey, in 1080, part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, under the title of whose lands it is …
A History of the County of Worcester
… 1,398 acres of permanent grass and 31 acres of woodland. 1 The Salwarpe River forms part of its southern boundary and the Hampton Brook and one of its tributaries part of the … 8 After Ethelwig's death in 1077 Upton was seized by Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, 9 and he appears to have given it to …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Waldershare WALDERSHARE Is the next parish southward from Betshanger lastdescribed, … of the Conqueror's reign, was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, the king's half-brother, of whom it … to have been at that time part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, under the general title of whose lands …
A History of the County of Northampton
… (xi cent.); Waldegrave (xiii cent.). This parish lies to the west of the road from Northampton to Kettering, which for a short … distance forms its eastern boundary; and is bounded on the north by Broughton, south by Hannington and Holcot, east …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… LAWRENCE Wealtham (x cent.); Lawrence Waltham (xv cent.). The parish of Waltham St. Lawrence contains 3,939 acres of … of permanent pasture and 342 of woods and plantations. 1 The parish is low-lying, and near the village is only about … a well-known publisher, who published for Dr. Johnson and Goldsmith, was the son of a small farmer of Waltham. He was …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Parishes Walton WALTON The parish, which is probably named from the woodland … Sir Bernard of Walton (fl. 1152) 64 and his grandfather Odo, possibly Odo Beautens who had held a fee of the abbey in the 12th …