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Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… 1848 ( London Gazette no. 20836). Left office 29 Dec. 1848 on app. as Secretary, Chelsea Hospital (ibid. no. 20931). … 5/57; Royal Kal. (1851), 160). Probably left office 1851 on app. as Private Secretary to Sir George Grey as Home … 160). D. 13 June 1856 ( Gent. Mag. (1856), cxxxix, 126). Barrow, Charles Messenger probably app. 1857; occ. 1858 ( …
A History of the County of Rutland
… the parishes of Ashwell; Burley; Cottesmore with Barrow; Exton; Greetham; Horn; Market Overton; Stretton; …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 1,194 ft. (364 m.) and Narrowdale Hill 1,204 ft. (367 m.). On the east the land slopes steeply to the river Dove, which … of the Millstone Grit series, with hard sandstone on Archford moor and a softer mudstone in the area east of … 1338 Sir Roger was succeeded by his son Robert, rector of Barrow (Ches.), who died in 1349 or 1350 with his brother Sir …
A History of the County of Stafford
… lies along the river Manifold, its boundary with Sheen on the east, and extends west as far as Merryton Low on the boundary with Onecote, in Leek parish. 43 Brooks form … from the Old English word ( hlaw) commonly used for a barrow. 49 One of the earliest medieval settlements was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… parishes: a detached portion of Bradnop centred on Hurdlow Farm and covering 385 a.; a detached portion of … Old English hord, treasure, and hlaw, a hill or possibly a barrow. 77 There was a house at Stoney Cliffe south-west of … George Crewe and the date 1841. There was a house at Hazel Barrow by 1719, 97 and Newstone Farm is dated 1773. A pool …
A History of the County of Stafford
… south-western boundary with Heathylee runs along a ridge. On the west Hollinsclough broadens out, taking in the … is coarse loam; there is loam of better quality over clay on the lower ground. 81 The number of people in Hollinsclough … in 1971 and 161 in 1981 and 1991. 83 There is a Bronze Age barrow on the hillside south-west of the village. 84 The …
A History of the County of Stafford
… part of Alstonefield township and part of Warslow are on limestone, and parts of Heathylee and Quarnford are on Coal Measures. Stone is the usual local building material. … m.), is the highest point in Staffordshire, and Flash, on the south side of the hill at 1,526 ft. (465 m.), is the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in area. 32 The land is mostly pasture. Warslow village on the east side of the parish is the main centre of … North of Warslow village there is a small estate centred on Warslow Hall. The river Manifold forms the eastern … 326 in 1981, and 313 in 1991. 38 There is a Bronze Age barrow on the northeastern side of Warslow village, with two …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the parish church, permitting easy location of the place on the one-inch Ordnance Survey Map at the end of the volume. … of 25 inches to one mile, but the smallest sites are shown on a larger scale and some of the biggest sites, notably the … shields-of-arms refer to their blazons, listed on p. 346. 'Celtic' Field Groups are described …
A History of the County of Oxford
… south-west of Witney and 15 miles (24 km) west of Oxford, on gently rising ground some 3 miles (5 km) north of the … has been suggested as a possible ploughed-out long barrow, 29 though the medieval surname 'of the barrow' was borne by freeholders who may not have been …