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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… at the mouth of the river Wey and which were united in 15701, together with the greater part of the former … of Weymouth is notable for the complexity of its geology. In the S. around Wyke Regis is gently rising Kimmeridge Clay … to the N. by a large area of low lying Oxford Clay in the region of Radipole Lake and by two small escarpments …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… was marked by the Fosse Way. 3 Contraction of population in the later 19th century brought absorption of the parish into Lovington in the 20th 4 and the subsequent closure of the church. 5 In … aunt, was in 1815 living at Wheathill and serving North Barrow and Lovington. Services at Wheathill were held …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Canonicorum 95 WHITCHURCH CANONICORUM (B.d.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XXVIII, S.W. (b)XXVIII, S.E. (c)XXXVII, N.W. … ( Or St. Wite) And Holy Cross (Plates 83, 207, 209) stands in the village. The walls are of local rubble with ashlar and … Hill m. S.E. of the church, are nine in number:(a) a disc barrow consisting of a mound 28 ft. in diam. and about 1 ft. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… S.E. of Dorchester. The parish is 2 miles long and varies in width from 1 mile at the N.E. to less than 400 yds. at the … S.W. Except for a small area of Reading and Bagshot Beds in the E. the whole parish lies on Chalk. The only … the S. boundary, at a height of 470 ft., is Culliford Tree Barrow, one of a linear group of round barrows, from which …
Old and New London
… Lane and the Old Clothes SalesA Lucky FindPoverty in WhitechapelThe London HospitalThe Danish ChurchThe … Whitechapel is mentioned by Beaumont and Fletcher, in their Knight of the Burning Pestle. "March fair, my … of many a fair ancient" (ensign). "I lived," says Defoe, in his "Memoirs of the Plague," "without Aldgate, about …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Whitley - Whittering Whitley WHITLEY, a tything, in the parish of Cumner, poor-law union of Abingdon, hundred … containing 22 inhabitants. Whitley WHITLEY, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Giles, Reading, union and hundred of … Cathedral and the castle of Old Sarum. In 1823, a barrow was opened on the estate of Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart.; …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… until Beatrice Malebisse, then its lady, gave the advowson in 1232 to the newly founded Spinney priory. 75 The priory … of the 18 marks upon which the whole benefice was taxed in the late 13th century, 76 and the 1270s. It was by then in … the curate Robert Grimer, sonin-law of his patron Isaac Barrow, was accused of upholding ceremonies, including …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wicken Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. In 1086 Count Alan's manorial demesne at Wicken included … who with eight bordars occupied the remaining land. 65 In 1279 barely 50 a., over half on the Little Isleham fee, … resistance, their new banks being cast down. Neither Isaac Barrow, the resident J.P., nor the curate and constable would …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… possessed before 1066 by Eddeva the fair were by 1086 held in demesne by her successor, Count Alan, lord of Richmond. 20 … to be held of that honor throughout the Middle Ages, in the 13th and 14th centuries as one knight's fee, 22 and … In 1582 Sir Robert sold it to the physician Philip Barrow, who moved from Isleham to Wicken. 8 On his death in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… on Boulder Clay at about 120 m.135 m. above OD, except in the extreme S. where sands, lime-stones and clays are exposed in the valley of the E. flowing Pipewell Brook. In the centre … Northants. Archaeol., 10 (1975), 163). For possible Round Barrow, see (11) below. b(1) Double Ring Ditch (SP 81818825), …