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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Abingdon, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 3 miles (S. E.) from Abingdon; containing 187 inhabitants, and … living is annexed to the vicarage of Amport: the incumbent's tithes have been commuted for 206. The church, erected in … sand, with rock, but the first prevails: the Bridgewater canal passes through. A court baron is held by R. E. E. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… signifies "the confluence of the water below the Baron's house," and is descriptive of the site of the ancient … In the deepest part of a small peat-bog called the "Hog's Hole," the skeletons of two red deer were recently found, … Arasaig, by Glenfinnan, to Fort-William and the Caledonian canal, and another from Strontian to Corran Ferry, by each of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Areley - Arncott Areley, King's, or Lower Areley (St. Bartholomew) ARELEY, KING'S, or Lower Areley ( St. Bartholomew), a parish, in the union … river Trent. The parish is intersected by the Grand Trunk canal, is skirted by the Trent, and lies on the main road …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… charged on the flank with a capital letter M. 278b. Christ's College. France Modern quartering England, with a border … Dixie. Azure, a lion and a chief or. 68a. Docket. See Duckett. Dod. Argent, on a fesse gules cotised wavy sable … three garbs and three crosses crosslet fitchy argent. 68a. Duckett. Sable, a saltire argent. Crest: a horse surmounted …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the union of Lutterworth, hundred of Guthlaxton, S. division of the county of Leicester, 8 miles (S. by E.) from Leicester; containing 505 inhabitants. It is … Arun is crossed by a bridge of peculiar construction. A canal also, connecting the Arun with the Thames and with …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 41 in 1421 and presumably earlier the earl of Arundel's fishery extended from the sea as far upstream as Pallingham … sent both to Arundel House in London and to Henry Howard's house at Albury (Surr.), and in the 18th century and early … after 1785, with the completion of the Wey and Arun canal in 1816, 98 greatly increased Arundel's hinterland; …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in the 19th and 20th centuries became one of the county's chief tourist attractions. The 19th and 20th centuries have … favour of Littlehampton at the mouth of the Arun. Arundel's other economic activity before the 19th century related … in the 19th century first by the Portsmouth-Arundel canal and then by the Brighton-Portsmouth railway. Char. Com. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and division of East ward, county of Westmorland, 4 miles (S. by W.) from Appleby; containing, with the townships of … fossil marble. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 23. 13. 4.; patron, Sir F. F. Vane; net income, … inhabitants. The parish is intersected by the Basingstoke canal and the SouthWestern railway, and comprises, with …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… dairy-farms. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 11. 8. 1.; net income, 375; patron, the Bishop of … village; and in the parish is an intrenchment named Alfred's Camp, near which are two barrows. Here are also a tumulus … of which are carried on at Woodville and Gresley. A canal passes within three miles south-westward of the town, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the union of St. Thomas, hundred of Exminster, Wonford and S. divisions of Devon, 2 miles (E.) from Chudleigh; … is a red loam. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 18, and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes … to Cainham intersects the parish; and the Leominster canal runs very near its southern extremity. On the bank of …