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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… division of Somerset, 4 miles (S. by W.) from Wincanton, on the road to Blandford; containing 461 inhabitants. It … and the glebe consists of 38 acres. The church has a tower on the south side of the nave. There is a place of worship … taste; the whole of the interior was destroyed by fire on the 25th December 1845, but the exterior remains quite …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of the position of the latter, King Henry III., on approaching with the English army, set fire to the grange … walls; and within the area was a range of massive pillars on each side, separating the nave from the aisles: the bases … from the scene of action, by one Adam de Francton, or de Frampton, who plunged his spear into his body without knowing …
Prisoners' Letters to the Bank of England, 1781-1827
… Denb. Denbighshire Derbys. Derbyshire Devon Devonshire Glos. Gloucestershire Hants Hampshire Herts. Hertfordshire …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Charters and Field Names of Gloucestershire (Bristol and Glos. Archaeol. Soc., 19356) IASB Problems of the Iron Age in … Field Club (1846 ) Playne (1876) G. F. Playne, On the Ancient Camps of Gloucestershire ( PCNFC, vol. vi) PNG … (1851 ) R.A.F. Royal Air Force R.C.H.M. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) RIB R. G. Collingwood and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Abbreviations list NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS Among the abbreviations and short titles … Court, Liber Actorum 1584, ed. E. R. Brinkworth Atkyns, Glos. R. Atkyns, The Ancient and Present State of … Educ. of Poor Digest of Returns to the Select Committee on the Education of the Poor, H.C. 224 (1819), ix (B) Elem. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 1 which lay 16 km. west of Gloucester, was flanked on the south-west by the extraparochial Forest of Dean and … Abenhall was part of a Roman road linking Lydney and the Severn crossing at Newnham with the settlement at Ariconium … wain or cart passing to or from Lea (Herefs., formerly Glos. and Herefs.) with wares. 27 The road originally ran …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… encountered by Grufydd ab Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, on the plain near Cevn Ogo, in this parish, and, after a … In the reign of William the Conqueror, Hugh Lupus, on his march to invade the Isle of Anglesey, passing through … on the west by Llanwnnog, and on the south by the river Severn, with which the Havesp here forms a junction. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… it acquired the name of Abbendon, "the town of the abbey," on the removal hither, in 680, of a Monastic institution … by Cissa, viceroy of Centwine, ninth king of Wessex; on which institution Ceadwalla, the king's son and successor, … of conveyance are afforded by tram-roads and by the Severn. The manufacture of paper is carried on to a …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of wood; there are fifty-five houses in it. Being situated on the quarry hills, it is very healthy, and the soil … are a clay. The southern part of Braborne-less, the warren on which is let at a considerable rent, is in this parish. … gent. as to one moiety, and of the Rev. William Jenkin, of Frampton, in Gloucestershire, as to the other moiety. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… that they ought for her, and none other has she to call on but either my old Lady here or you, who have done very … and now the care of her debts and the burden that she lays on your Grace is such a corrosive to her heart, that it is … s. d. Bemister hundred 49 15 4 Gotherthorne do. 14 2 8 Frampton liberty 19 5 4 Broadwindsor manor 4 15 4 Lyme Regis …