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A History of the County of Somerset
… of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from … obliterated by the construction of the Huntspill River in 1940. Some of the southern boundary is a lane or footpath. … 367; Cal. Close, 1341-3, 479. Cal. Pat. 1441-6, 29. Cal. Papal Reg. ix. pp. 473-4. Cal. Pat. 1446-52, 457; 1467-77, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… The parish, with an area of 1,950 acres and a population in 1931 of 288, is some 4 miles from north to south, with an … end, was annexed to Linch for ecclesiastical purposes in 1886. 1 The main village lies at the junction of three lanes in a deep bend of the River Rother, which with a tributary …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woolminstone - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division … Woolpit (St. Mary) WOOLPIT ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stow, hundred of Thedwastry, W. division of … vein of brick-earth, and the white bricks made here are in great estimation. One of the largest horse-fairs in …
The Environs of London
… Woolwich WOOLWICH. Name. THIS place in old charters is called Hulviz, Wolwiche, Wollewic, &c. I … parish is bounded on the north by the river Thames, except in that part where it extends on the opposite side of the … and the remainder upland pasture 3. The soil, except in the marshes, is principally gravel. At the east end of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woothorpe - Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of … Benedictine nunnery dedicated to St. Mary, existed here in the time of Henry I., and was united in the reign of Edward III. to the convent of Our Lady St. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the flat meadows and oolitic gravels of the Upper Thames in the south to the rich 'red land' of the ironstone uplands around Deddington in the north; between them is the undulating stonebrash of … surrounded by open fields until parliamentary inclosure in the 18th century or early 19th; groupings of two open …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, … some centuries; there is also an iron-foundry, and coal-mines are wrought within a quarter of a mile. The river Stour … limestone; on a hill north of the village are some mines of lead and calamine, but they are not wrought at …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300
… R. Darlington, ibid. p. xliii n. 1, discussing dates given in chrons.). Canonised 14 May 1203 (Innocent III, Cal. … March] 1150 ( Cart. Worc. p. lii n. 1, discussing dates in chrons.). 4 M. John de Pagham 5 Clk. of Theobald, abp. of … 1 148). El. 2 Dec. 1213 ( Ann. Worc. p. 402). Qua. by papal legate, Nicholas, cardinal-bp. of Tusculum, presum. …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Ref.110 BA1/1/16/29 (1601) To the right reverend father in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of … and one whoe was borne and hath byn alwayes dwellinge in Odingley and haveinge noe maintenance or frindes to … forceiblie turned out of an out howse of Thomas Sales in Odingley wherein she had byn almost three yeres, ever …