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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Tunsted, a hill in the township, is supposed, from its Saxon etymology, viz., "the place of a town," to have been …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… bone combs, perhaps late Romano-British rather than Saxon as originally reported, and human skeletons. TBGAS, 58 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to describe the 10th-century estate suggests that a late Anglo-Saxon estate-centre existed on or near the same site. 7 The … appear to be of post-Conquest origin, and no evidence of Anglo-Saxon occupation elsewhere in the town has yet been …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1 The ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with the late Anglo-Saxon estate, was large for Oxfordshire, covering 7,182 a. … the area may have been divided between different late Anglo-Saxon parochiae, with territories north of the river …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 575 inhabitants. This place was visited in 477, by Ella, a Saxon adventurer, who, with his three sons, landed here and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with certainty: conjecture has deduced the latter from the Saxon Willi or Vili, signifying "many," and Combe, "a deep … a still more ancient building; and a variety of Roman and Saxon coins was found, together with some Nuremberg counters, …