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A History of the County of Gloucester
… stream, on which several cloth-mills were built, and the southern boundary is formed by the Inch brook and ornamental ponds built on the brook by the late 18th … to a height of over 750 ft. at Bown hill. The Nailsworth and Inchbrook valleys are formed by deposits of Upper Lias …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's … Newmarket was separated from its parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as a … the town; 11 by the 18th century it levied its own rates and was treated as a separate cure even when held by the same …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Woodditton Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In the Middle Ages the manors in … were Ditton Camoys, Ditton Valence, Saxton, the rectory, and Ditton Priory. The last two were united in 1608 and all …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The … is bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to … extending a little over 3 miles from north to south, and from east to west about 2 miles in the north and 1 mile …
A History of the County of Essex
… does not seem to have been appropriated, even temporarily, and its incumbent has always been styled a rector. But part … composition was made in 1224 between the abbot of Waltham and the rector of Woodford to settle certain divisions of tithe and other matters, although no mention was then made of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Beds, about 250 ft. above O.D. Further E. the land falls and the Chalk is soon overlain by Reading Beds and London Clays which give rise to a well-wooded area, at … from 200 ft. to 120 ft., drained by streams flowing S. and S.E. Bagshot Beds in the S.E. of the parish result in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Woodmancote Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. The manor of WOODMANCOTE was held in 1066 by Countess Guda, and in 1086 of William de Braose by William son of Rannulf, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… The village lies on the N. side of Willow Brook and consists of a single street with a back lane on the N. … 16th century (NRO, W(A) XVI. 5). The sheltered position and fertile soil on the S. side of the street gave rise in … carriers. By the 16th century there were mills at both E. and W. ends of the village, but the E. mill was demolished in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ft. along the Frome. The S. half is all on Bagshot Beds and Plateau Gravel and is partly heathland while the N. is largely on a wide … Two holdings in Woodsford, presumably East Woodsford and West Woodsford, are listed in Domesday Book. The former …
A History of the County of Oxford
… until the 1930s. They were listed in a survey of 1279 and as 'the king's rents' in 1468-9. 48 Later the corporation acquired the quitrents 49 and listed them annually with its other rents. Rentals … John Wallis, mercer, and sold in 1515 to John Baron (or Barnes), mercer, many times mayor. 79 In the early 17th …