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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 5179 inhabitants. This town derives its name from the Saxon Win Munde Ham, signifying "a pleasant village on a … the defeat of the last King of Cumberland, by Edmund, the Saxon monarch, of whom Malcolm, King of Scotland, held …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… earls of Pembroke. The Rev. Edward Lye, author of the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, who died in 1769, was rector of the parish. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… unhistorically, a long-established green. At Bilsham late Anglo-Saxon finds around the medieval chapel may suggest a nucleus …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 73. Finberg, Early Charters of Wessex, 134; L. Abrams, Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury: Church and Endowment, 256-7. V.C.H. Som. … charters have been considered dubious: Reg. Regum Anglo-Norm. i, pp. 50, 181. S.R.S. viii, p. 192; Tax. Eccl. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… terrace there; pottery of the Iron Age and of the late Anglo-Saxon and early medieval periods was scattered over a wide …