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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… but it is certain enough that Gerard de Fancourt held a Knight's Fee of Oliver de Aynecourt in Hickling and … Doomsday Book there is mention of Newbold, in those Days a very considerable Place, but now tis well migh lost between … hath of it in this Place: which shows that Earl Morcar had a Manor in it taxed at three Carucats. The Land whereof was …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… then ten Bov. there under Earl Hugh, one Sochm. had Half a Carucat, and nine Acres of Meadow. This in the Time of … there two Vill. with one Plow (or Carucat) and the Seat of a Mill, and ten Acres of Meadow. This, in the Confessor's … three Carucats or Plows. This Town was commonly esteemed a Member of Radcliff-upon-Sore; and the Tythes went to the …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… this place, before the coming of the Normans, Leuric had a Manor which usually answered to the Public Tax at two Car. … seventeen Villains, four Bord. having seven Car. There was a Priest and a Church, two Mills, 12s. one Piscary, one … and Devonshire in these Parts: but his eldest Son was John Leeke of Sutton, who by his Wife Elizabeth the Daughter of …
A History of the County of Rutland
… land. Ranksborough Hill in the west of the parish rises to a height of 626 ft., and the land falls from it in a southeasterly and easterly direction about 200 ft. to the … who was formerly curat of this Town.' The cup is by Ralph Leeke, of London; the flagon bears the maker's mark I.L. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… between the two towns lies the village of Leek Wootton, on a slight hill with the church at its highest point. The … 18th century, of brick with tiled roofs, though there are a few of slightly earlier date, timberframed and thatched. A little north of the church a road runs east to the hamlet …
A History of the County of Bedford
… and south-east of Leighton Buzzard, the soil is clay or a mixture of sand, clay and marl with a subsoil of clay, and the crops are wheat, barley, beans and … kt., by his will, appointed a messuage situated in the Leeke End and a piece of sward ground to the bailiff and …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… the Saxon Leccian, to water, or moisten, which is done by a small Brook in this Place to both the Hamlets, or … or West-Leak. On the north Side of this Lordship, on a Knoll, called Court-Hill, near the Bounds of Gotham, about a flight Shot from Cuckoo-Bush, the Hundred Court hath been …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1,379. Population: 1911, 1,641; 1921, 1,715; 1931, 2,299. A great part of the ancient civil parish of Lillington, … &c., have been found. 2 They are capped in these pits by a boulder clay containing travelled blocks of rocks from … Stoneleigh Road and the Blackdown district. Some years ago a Neolithic interment and settlement were discovered here …
A History of the County of Warwick
… to meet and follow the River Anker once more for about a mile. The boundary crossed the Coventry Canal and reached … from Nuneaton, and running parallel with this road for a short distance, through the colliery village of Chapel End … of the old parish. Next the boundary turned north-west up a small stream till it reached Ridge Lane, 4 on the eastern …
A History of the County of Somerset
… some more or less modified. To the north-east are a ditch known in 1517 as la Rydde and a channel of the Sheppey river known as the Ashenrhyne. 3 The … Coleshill of London. 114 In 1601 Mary, wife of Jasper Leeke, and Susan, wife of Edward Stanhope, daughters of …