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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Worksop, and all mess. and houses, and several closes and fields, and four acres of arable in Manton in the parish of … therefore take a cursorary review, after Leland and Tanner's account. " Werkensop a pretty market town of two streets, … bishop of Canterbury and Gerard bishop of York in Henry's days. His b'ood and inheritance came to a daughter that …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… of land and a Bordar; and the Abbot of Bury St. Edmund's held the other half, with five acres of land, worth twelve … the antiquity of the appellations by which most of our fields and lanes are known at the present day. A branch of … gules, a cross engrailed, and a canton arg. Fitz-Osbert's shield was gules, 3 bars gemelles or. [Pedigree of …
A History of the County of Essex
… and wheat, rye, and oats were cultivated in two 26-a. fields: Blakemandown, first recorded in 1322, which survived … and Poleghelegh which bordered Robert of Horkesley's wood in 1290, were probably assarts near the Little … increased from £4 to £6, while the value of the sokemen's holdings remained 40 s. 65 The parish was one of the poorer …
A History of the County of Essex
… follow mainly field boundaries, but sometimes cut through fields. Detached fields totalling 15 a. in Little Horkesley, … which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the … is that a crocodile escaped from Richard I's menagerie in the Tower of London and caused much damage in …
A History of the County of Essex
… manors in Mount Bures and West Bergholt. 98 Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, and Henry I granted it to … Mountfichet. In 1267 on the death without issue of William's descendant Richard de Munfichet, the overlordship passed to … in 1375. His heir was his nephew Richard Poynings, Michael's son. 5 By 1383 the manor was held by Richard Waldegrave. 6 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton College: the … wapentake of Allertonshire, N. riding of York, 3 miles (S. S. W.) fromYarm; containing 143 inhabitants. This … of 1036 a. 2 r. 34 p., which, with the exception of a few fields of arable land, and about 4 acres of plantation, is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Worth Matravers 53 WORTH MATRAVERS (9777) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 97 NE, bSY 98 SE) Worth Matravers, a parish covering 2,700 acres, lies in the S. part of the Isle of Purbeck, 3 miles W. of Swanage. It … by impressive flights of strip lynchets of the former open fields of Worth Matravers. In the N. of the parish the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… had led to the accumulation of shingle, and Worthing's former fine, hard sands 78 had been replaced by a pebbly … 87 Those conditions were a principal cause of Worthing's growth as a resort, and afterwards of the expansion of the … later edns.). W.S.R.O., Par. 29/13/1; S.A.C. i. 26-7; F. Dixon, Geol. of Suss. (1850), 37. I.R. 29 and 30/35/46; …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of Findon and Sompting transferred to Worthing in 1933. O.S. Area Bk. (1876). Worthing Town and Market Act, 43 Geo. … Smail, Map Story, 53, 75. The boundary was not shown in O.S. Map 6", Suss. LXIV (1879 edn.). Census, 1871. L.G.B. Prov. … Act, 1875, 38 & 39 Vic. c. 175 (Local); Census, 1881; O.S. Map 6", Suss. LXIV. SW. (1899 edn.). Census, 1891-1971. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1300 99 and in 1493. 1 In 1560 the east and west common fields were recorded, 2 and by the mid 17th century the … eastern edge of the former east field on John Winchester's allotment by 1838. 27 It was called Sea Mill Park farm by … poultry were also kept. 32 Market-gardening. 33 Worthing's climate and fertile brickearth soil helped the development …