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A History of the County of Somerset
… lapsed by 1408 when Idstock was said to be held of the countess of Kent. 54 In 1284-5 Robert de St. Clare held …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… heptarchy for its stately castle, erected by Ethelfreda, Countess of Mercia, to check the incursions of the Welsh. A …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from Kennett. The southern border, following the Icknield way, is also the county boundary. Lower Chalk, which runs … was still growing in the 1990s. The prehistoric Icknield way may have been in use in the Roman period, and Street way, which ran 3 km. to the north of it, may have been …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to the west of the village between Newyards Lane and Port Way, covered 218 a., and there were 133 a. in Pudmanhill … of holdings into numerous half yardlands gradually gave way in the 17th and 18th centuries to six large farms, little … to create the rabbit warren to the south-east of Ditch Way along the boundary with Kennett. 80 In the mid 16th …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the main village street, north of its junction with Middle Way. The manor house had two courtyards, and a moat and …
A History of the County of Essex
… called Bantons, which spanned Cripsey Brook on the way to Greenstead. 72 In 1637 a carrier from Chipping Ongar …
A History of the County of Essex
… Helen, which suggests the benefaction of Miss Helen (later Countess) Tasker. A small red-brick building, now in ruins, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the N. remained, though at least part of the E.-W. hollow-way appears still to have been used as a track (OS 1st ed. 1 … but certain features are clear. A very damaged hollow-way up to 1 m. deep runs from the W. end of the site to … ('a'-'b' on plan). To the W. of the farm this hollow-way widens into a roughly triangular depression from the N. …
The Environs of London
… Stanley, for life. Henry VII. having restored to the old Countess of Warwick all her husband's possessions, for the … manor, died seised of it in 1504; and his widow, (Margaret Countess of Richmond, the King's mother,) in 1509. The manor …