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A History of the County of Stafford
… Monastic precinct The abbey church stood beside an arm of the river Trent at the south end of the town, with its west front facing onto the market place. The east end of the church was demolished after the Dissolution … Abbot William of Bromley (1316-29) evidently stood south-east of the main claustral buildings beside the Fleet, a …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Parliamentary representation Although the abbot of Burton was summoned to parliament as a baron between 1295 … in the Middle Ages. A parliamentary division covering east Stafford-shire, created in 1885 as one of seven new … Ivan) Lawrence, a barrister (1974); Janet Dean, mayor of East Stafford-shire Borough Council (1997). Charters of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… lecturer in Burton parish church; Henry Bee, a native of Stapenhill who had been ejected from Hanbury; Thomas Ford, … 13 Christian Brethren established a meeting room on the east side of Wetmore Road before 1903, moving in 1922 to a … registration by Brethren in 1903 of a meeting room on the east side of Guild Street was cancelled in 1919, but Plymouth …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in a Burton charter, was possibly a maker or supervisor of a conduit. 10 There was probably a conduit in the market … the river at Burton bridge. 13 They also dug a new ditch east of Guildables Lane (later Guild Street), from which … south-west A crematorium for the Burton area was opened by East Staffordshire district council and South Derbyshire …
A History of the County of Stafford
… unto the church'; in 1580 he was committed to the custody of the dean of Windsor in a failed attempt to convert him to … He again applied to the marquess that year for land on the east side of the railway line near Horninglow Street, … (1851-2), secured land for a chapel, set back from the east side of Guild Street, and a school-chapel was opened in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in the late 18th century by William Sketchley, the author of The Cocker, a manual on game cocks, 13 and mains of cocks … had been erected by 1822: it stood in 1837 on the east side of the course beside the river Trent. 1 A one-day … in the late 18th century adjoined an inn at the south-east corner of the market place. 5 It probably remained in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… BURTON, BISHOP ( All Saints), a parish, in the union of Beverley, Hunsley-Beacon division of the wapentake of … reign of Stephen, but the two principal fronts of which, east and west, each about 130 feet long, have been built … style, and contains a richly carved oak screen: a new east window has been put up in the chancel by the Rev. Mr. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Burwell BURWELL The parish of Burwell 1 lies by the Cambridgeshire-Suffolk boundary, … (6.5 km.) north-west of Newmarket and ten (16 km.) north-east of Cambridge. Approximately triangular, with a narrow … or richly equipped. 25 In 1071 Hereward's men from the Isle of Ely burnt the village of Burwell. 26 In 1086 Burwell …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… L-shaped, covers nearly 7000 acres approximately N.W. of Newmarket. The S.E. part is entirely on the chalk and … over the chancel arch states specifically that the east wall and the roof of the nave were completed in 1464. A … de Mandeville, who had fallen from power, seized the Isle of Ely and from this base proceeded to devastate the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in use, standing close together near the south end of the village street. St. Andrew's on the east was appropriated by 1280. St. Mary's to the south-west … incorporates thick clunch walls, probably medieval, at its east end, where it rises into a three-storeyed block with …