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A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… parish of Aldsworth lies 6.5 km. south-east of Northleach and 5 km. north-east of Cirencester. In 1976 it covered an area of 1,356 ha. (3,350 a.) 1 and was irregular in shape with the boundaries marked by field boundaries save on the west and part of the south where they followed the river Leach and …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… patterns; farmsteads surrounded by closes between them, and church and manor house by the river Brue. ALFORD, formerly noted for … LIFE An inn recorded from 1738, presumably on the main street, may have had bear baiting in 1759, 6 and was known in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Upper division of the hundred of Doddingtree, Worcester and W. divisions of the county of Worcester, 7 miles (W. by … This place is bounded on the north by the river Teme, and comprises 1542 a. 1 r. 17 p., whereof 83 acres are common … the surface is undulated, the land in good cultivation, and the scenery, enriched with wood, is generally of pleasing …
A History of the County of Worcester
… stated; it was a cell subject to the abbey in France and endowed with the manor and church of Astley. Among the deeds of the abbey of St. … by Richard I. in January 1195-6 confirming to the abbot and convent all gifts already bestowed on them. 3 Among the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… manor of Leighton was granted by Henry II. to the abbess and convent of Fontevraud in 1164 1; and it is probable that a house was built there for a cell of … not very long after. A prior is first mentioned in 11956, and is then called the prior of Leighton 2; the name of La …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Abbey of Lonlay in Normandy. It never became denizen and after the great war with France it was suppressed and its estates used for the endowment of the College of St. … grant 1 made in the time of Henry I by William de Falaise and Geva his wife of the church of St. Andrew of Stoke to the …
A History of the County of Hertford
… due to Hugh de Grentemaisnil's gift of the church, tithe and 2 carucates of land here 1 to the abbey of St. Evroul in … 8 dying without issue in 1204, it fell to his sister and co-heir Margaret wife of Saher de Quency Earl of … built in the priory a great hall, a large chamber, and a chapel for her greater convenience when she chose to …
A History of the County of York
… the monks free from all exactions of wapentakes, tridings, and danegeld, and from all manner of secular exactions and foreign service. 2 An inquisition was held at Wetherby in …
A History of the County of London
… Alien Houses Hermits and Anchorites of London 46. THE HERMITS AND ANCHORITES OF LONDON Hermits are so different from … 1311, of encroaching on the rights of St. Olave's Silver Street: he had heard confessions and administered sacraments …
A History of the County of London
… or at one time the Jews spread beyond the Jewry, and it is possible to give this interpretation to an order of … was founded for a master, two priests, a schoolmaster, and twelve poor men, 2 but there appears to have been no … it by a proctor of St. Anthony's, and was then free of the street to pick up what it could. As it was a merit to feed …