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A History of the County of Essex
… normally above it. 4 The mill was acquired by Clerkenwell priory in or before 1176. 5 The wealth of woodland and the restrictions … grazed there. In 1189 Richard I granted to Stratford Abbey in West Ham the right to pasture sheep on the heath. 10 …
A History of the County of Essex
… statement that land at Wanstead was given to Westminster Abbey by Alfric in 1065 comes from a spurious charter, not … his two sons, Brian FitzRalph and Jordan de Briset (or Jordan FitzRalph), the founder of Clerkenwell Priory. 5 The grandson of Brian FitzRalph, also called Brian …
A History of the County of Essex
… 5 In 1208, after a dispute between the rector and the priory of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, it was agreed that the … by 1902. 16 The ancient rectory house stood in South (or Parsons, later Redbridge) Lane, north of Wanstead Park. 17 … Wanstead House. 18 About 1830 the rectory was rebuilt on or near the same site. 19 It was sold in 1924 to Essex county …
The Environs of London
… the Saxon words wan and stede, signifying the white place, or mansion. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how … thirteenth century it belonged to the family of Hoding, or Hosdene 4. William de Huntercombe, who married to his … The manor of Canon-hall, or Can-hall, belonged to the priory of the Holy Trinity as early as the year 1207 22. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and a half eastward of the church, are some remains of a priory for Augustine canons built in the 14th year of Henry … It comprises 3237 acres, of which 1133 are common or waste land; the ground is hilly, and the soil light. The … In the cemetery is the mausoleum of Lord Ongley. An abbey for Cistercian monks from Rivaulx was founded in the …
Warborough (Including Shillingford)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… over Shillingford bridge. Both roads broadly follow Roman or earlier routes, but with substantial deviations. The Roman … were Hammer Lane, Pain Way, and Priests' Moor (later Avery or Overy) Lane, 11 which joins the Fleet Marston Roman road. … rents to others including Godstow nunnery and Dorchester abbey. Their estates were initially regarded as still part of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… S. but this was not actually done until late in the 14th or early in the 15th century. Probably late in the 14th … face and two on the return face; the shafts have cushion or scalloped capitals, moulded bases and chamfered and … late 12th-century date, and said to have come from Ramsey Abbey; there is also a 13th-century moulded voussoir. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… W. wall was re-built. The South Porch is probably a 16th or 17th-century addition. The church was restored in 1855 … the W. gable is a square bell-turret, perhaps of the 16th or 17th century; it projects to the E. and W. on corbels and … the surname initial seems to have been cut away. d(9). Abbey Hall, house at Bleatarn nearly 1 m. S.W. of the church, …
A Dictionary of London
… gives it its name. 1. Each of the principal gates gives or has given its name to a ward, which was formed about the … as Farringdon Within 2. Other Wards having a main artery or Crossing Bridge: Fish Street Hill, formerly Bridge Street, … Not named in the maps. Waremanni-Acra Charter of Wm. I. to Abbey of St. Peter, Ghent, confirming to them the land which …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Guare, derived both its origin and name from a weare, or dam, constructed on the river Lea, and strongly fortified … which he was killed; and in the same reign, a Benedictine priory was founded by Margaret, Countess of Leicester, as a … for the poor. The union of Ware comprises fifteen parishes or places, and contains a population of 15,528. Near the town …