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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… about 4641 acres; the soil is a light earth resting on chalk, and the surface is undulated. The village is built on a portion of the area anciently occupied by a stupendous … containing 1057 inhabitants. It is situated on the river Avon, which is navigable to the English Channel, and over …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… 26 April 1825. A cm of the same name was also admitted on 3 May 1826. [Norwich freemen reg.] Bacon, James, 6 New St … out several insurance policies with the Hand in Hand Co. on a house on the north side of the street between Russells … 1803. Batchelor, Samuel, Silver St, Bradford-upon-Avon, Wilts., cm (1839). [D] Batchelor, Walter, Bristol, cm, …
Alumni Oxonienses
… both in Bucks, 1557, professed Protestant opinions on the accession of Q. Elizabeth, master of Balliol College … (son of William 1624), of Gray's Inn 1661, M.P. Berwick-on-Tweed 1689-90, a colonel in the parliamentary army, … & D.N.B. Baker, Samuel s. Richard, of Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick, pleb. University Coll., matric. 22 Nov., …
The Rulers of London 1660-1689
… John Ald Aldgate, 22 Feb 1657/8-31 Jan 1659/60, disch "on account of infirmity" (1) Near St Clement Danes church, … John Ald Aldersgate, 29 Jul 1687-3 Oct 1688, superseded on restoration of Charter (1) St Catherine Creechurch, 1670, … Brewster PCC 133 Foot 1687, f was s of Edward Brewster of Welford, Northants, cordwainer (STA, Appr Reg, 1606-66, 2 May …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is hilly, and the soil clay and chalk. A fair is held on Nov. 5th. The living is a discharged rectory, with that of … This parish comprises about 1200 acres. It is situated on the navigable river Gipping, by which it is bounded on the … acres, and is bordered on the west by the navigable river Avon, which here receives a small brook, which in its course …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Bourton and Neithrop. In 1510 the accounting officials on the bishop's estate were the reeve of the castle, the … was not an accounting official and by the 16th century, as on many other estates, the office and fees were granted to a … From 1688 until 1694 the post was in the hands of Thomas Welford who was paid a salary of 20 a year. Between 1717 and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… it is the chief town, 165 miles (N. by E.) from Edinburgh, on the road from Aberdeen to Inverness; containing 3958 … houses, in compensation for which losses, they obtained, on their petition to parliament, a grant of their own excise. … the Doveran, which rises in the hills of Cabrach; the Avon; the Livet; and the Isla; with countless smaller …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bardsey-with Rigton, 5 miles (S. W. by S.) from Wetherby, on the road to Leeds. This parish, which comprises 2600 … of a small rivulet, near the Wetherby road; Rigton lies on the opposite side of the valley. The living is a … the marks of which still remain. The mill on the river Avon at Barford, now belonging to the Earl of Warwick, was …
Alumni Oxonienses
… vicar of Therfield, Herts, 1662, imprisoned in the Tower on a charge of high treason for 2 years and 4 months and … 1585, aged 21; one of these names rector of St. Edmund-on-the-Bridge in Exeter 1593. See Foster's Index … warden of the Collegiate Church of Stratford-upon-Avon, co. Warwick, canon of Lichfield 1526, of St. Paul's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (N. E.) from Winchester, and 45 (W. S. W.) from London, on the great western road; containing 4066 inhabitants. In … the buildings connected with it, there are some remains on an eminence at the south-western side of the town, … The town is pleasantly situated on the banks of the river Avon, along which its buildings extend more than two miles, …