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A History of the County of Middlesex
… Two branches, the Drayton Stream and the Frays River, or Cowley Stream, which carries compensation water from the … were made in 1842 for the construction of regulating sills or weirs across both streams, 13 and one sill, across the … J. Warburton, J. Bland, P. Smyth, Map of Mdx., Essex and Herts. (1710: copy in B.M. Map Room, Crace Collection). …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… the arms of Shanke gules, a fess between three escallops, or, impaling gules, three arrows or, feathered argent, Hales. … thus Aston on the Trent or Derwent; and the river Ben in Hertfordshire, Ashby in Domesday, wrote Esseby, now included … Ashbourn, or Esseburn in Derbyshire; Ashwell, Escewell in Hertfordshire; Esse, in the British tongue signifies an …
A History of the County of Sussex
… which existed in the 1720s was apparently of 16th- or early 17th-century date; its entrance front, which faced … later 18th century, but the entrance range was repaired or rebuilt after 1749: the new nine-bayed, two-storeyed … locally from 1308, 56 may have come from Clothall (Herts.). 57 Adam of Clothall married one of the daughters of …
A History of the County of Essex
… and Eastern line was opened from Stratford to Broxbourne (Herts.) in 1840, extended to Hertford in 1843 and Cambridge … Many of the railway stations in West Ham were enlarged or rebuilt from time to time to deal with increasing traffic. … the numbered sub-districts formed in 1917 four lay wholly or mainly in West Ham: Stratford (E. 15), Plaistow (E. 13), …
The Environs of London
… from two brooks (of which the Brent is one) which run near or through it. It is called West Twyford, to distinguish it … the Moyles. Henry Bold, the poet. Fabian Philips. A survey or visitation of the church of Twyford, anno 1251, mentions … was then Taylor, put out for scandal at Hempsted in Hertfordshire 26. He had for his salary at Twyford 10 l. The …
Alumni Oxonienses
… B.A. from Queen's Coll. 1677. Westbrook, Hugh (Wesbroke or Wethebroke) B.A. 18 July, 1519. [ 25] Westbrooke, Marke of … 1618. See Foster's Graduati Cantab. Westerman, Richard of Herts, gent. Oriel Coll., matric. 27 Oct., 1615, aged 17, … 1603-4, M.A. 1607, and incorporated 12 March, 1607-8; B.D. or D.D. from Magdalen Coll. 18 May, 1631; rector of St. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and Bremeridge. 47 Other unrecorded grants by Henry II or his predecessors gave rise to the manors of Leigh, … fee. 56 The manor at that time comprised the four estates or hamlets of Brook, Headinghill, Stoke, and Dilton. 57 It … that held land at Lambourn, and the honor of Walkern (Herts.). William de Lanvaley of that family died c. 1215, …
A History of the County of Hertford
… in the north wall, which was probably that of the founder or person who defrayed the cost of building the aisle, and … altar of St. Helen; an altar of Our Lady in the Brockett or Lady Chapel 199 in the south transept; a third in the … the transept (Wills, P.C.C. 32, Horne). Chauncy ( Hist. of Herts. 524) gives an inscription to William Grettewelle, …
A History of the County of Hertford
… datum. The greater portion of the parish is undulating or hilly, and more nearly approaches the higher of the two … much played. Kinsbourne Green, where the kennels for the Hertfordshire Hunt are, lies about a mile north-west of … article on Agriculture. Westm. D. and C. Ct. R. 14049. Herts. Co. Rec. ii, 64. Eccl. Com. Ct. R. Cussans, Hist. of …
A History of the County of Hertford
… manor of Kinsbourne (Cunesburne c. 1225; Kingsbarne 1650) or Harpenden, and the manor of the rectory. 20 The first two … There is little doubt that the whole of western Hertfordshire was at one time forest land, and that … Thorpe, Dipl. Angl. 404; Cott. Chart. vi, 2, &c. a V.C.H. Herts. i, 312 a. See postea, p. 309. Ed. Rec. Com. 52 b. …