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An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… of Archbishop Stigand, was lord in King Edward's reign, and on his deprivation the Conqueror seized on it, and Godric his steward took care of it for him. In Alnoht's … time, there was one carucate of land, with 12 villains, and one borderer, and 6 servi, 2 carucates in demean, and 3 …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… of Canterbury, who was lord before the conquest, and held it as a lay fee, and as a beruite to his manor of Earsham: consisting of 2 … in demean, &c. half a carucate among the tenants, and 12 acres of meadow, &c. a mill, 2 runci, 4 cows, &c. and …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… on the expulsion of Toret, a thane of King Edward, and was held by Geffrey under the Lord Baynard; it contained, … 12 borderers with 2 servi, 2 carucates in demean, and 2 among the tenants, &c. 30 acres of meadow, 2 runci, and 11 cows, &c. 160 sheep, &c. and 6 freemen belonging to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of persons belonging to Clearwell are employed in the coal and iron mines in the parish and in the adjacent Forest of Dean. A church has been built … for the detention of persons remanded from police courts, and committed for trial: there are 1000 cells. The …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Together with the adjoining parishes of Whittlebury and Silverstone (in Greens Norton hundred), it forms a … To the north, Cleley abuts Wymersley hundred. On the south and east much of the county boundary is formed by the river … corner of the hundred, near the confluence of the Tove and the Great Ouse, is about 200 ft. above sea level; in the …
Survey of London
… by properties along the north side of Clerkenwell Green and on the north by Bowling Green Lane and Corporation Row, … way to light engineering and printing. Some old slum courts and alleys on the west side were swept away in the … on Ogilby & Morgan's survey of 1676 (Ill. 9). Dense courts and alleys were already in the making, for instance in …
Survey of London
… Clerkenwell Close area Middlesex House of Detention site, and other buildings Middlesex House of Detention site 43. The … looking south towards the main gates, c. 1840 The two-and-a-half-acre site described here has a long history of … Originally, the improvement scheme was confined to the courts and alleys on the north-west side of the Closein and …
Survey of London
… is the only known building of importance by the architect and surveyor James Carr. It replaced the ancient church of … since the creation of the parish of Clerkenwell in 1176, and after the nunnery's suppression the building was retained … was augmented before 1500 to include St James the Less, and by 1540 the church seems to have been rededicated to St …
Survey of London
… 92). But though it is widely thought of as the natural and historic centre of Clerkenwell, its origins are not those … out in 18778 by Higgs & Hill. At the same time the two courts in the main block were re-arranged and redecorated. … near Temple Bar obliterated by the building of the Royal Courts of Justicebut moved in 1719 to the disused Ailesbury …
Survey of London
… Road CHAPTER XIV. Clerkenwell Road Clerkenwell Road and Theobalds Road were constructed by the Metropolitan Board … an intended cross-capital arterial road, linking West End and East End. Less than half the route passes through the old … (Ills 546, 547). For some of the way, between Goswell Road and St John Street, Clerkenwell Road was adapted from …