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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle. The church, situated on an elevated piece of ground adjoining the river, was built … 13 (W. by S.) from York, and 194 (N. N. W.) from London, on the great north road; containing 1433 inhabitants. The … which was first introduced to public notice by Mr. George Frampton, in 1827, and has since attracted the notice of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from Beccles; containing 176 inhabitants. It is bounded on the northeast by the river Waveney, and comprises by … 391 inhabitants, and comprising 1238 acres. It is bounded on the north-west by the river Severn; the Gloucester and Berkeley and the Stroud canals …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Anthony Ely, was licensed to live at Netherhills in Frampton on Severn. 97 Ely was later said to live in the glebe house, 98 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The fact that West field lay near the middle of the parish on the northern boundary 85 suggests that the open-field land … early times lay all in the south-east half of the parish, on the higher ground. In 1638 West field and Nether field … were also a dozen families supported by work on the River Severn 43 and, presumably, the canals. A sailor was among the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and stretches long and narrow to within a few yards of the Severn in the north-west. The name of the parish has been … adopted as the official name. 2 Meanwhile the settlement on the main road had come to be known usually as Whitminster … a small detached part of the parish was transferred to Frampton on Severn and a similar detached part of Moreton …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of Hereford 78 until the late 14th century: it was settled on Humphrey de Bohun and his wife Elizabeth in 1302, 79 and … lived at Whitminster House and farmed 167 a. partly in Frampton on Severn. 20 Whitminster House is a three-story building mainly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a deep rich loam in the centre of the vale to a light sand on the sides and acclivities of the hills by which it is … a rich appearance to the vale: Eslington House, seated on the bank of the river, is the residence of the Hon. Henry … the village into the river Perry, which falls into the Severn near Shrewsbury. The grant of a weekly market and an …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… settled Wicken in 1382, from his widow Joan's death, on his surviving daughter Margaret and her husband Sir John … in 1402-3. Margaret (d. 1414) settled Wicken c. 1407 on the marriage of that son John's son John Peyton to Grace … death in 1484 the elder Thomas had settled Wicken in 1476 on the marriage of his son's son, another Thomas (d. s.p. …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… In the winter, most drying had to take place inside - on winter hedges. Not found in the OED Found described as … Books in the early eighteenth century carried up the River Severn in BARREL or CASK, but it has not been noted in the … being carried in quite large quantities up the River Severn in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Col. Wyndham is lord of the manor. The parish is bounded on the east by the Wolds, and on the west partly by the Derwent. It comprises 2990 acres, … seated on the river Stour, which empties itself into the Severn about two miles below it. The soil in the vicinity is …