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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Churches CHURCHES The church of ST. BARTHOLOMEW, near the remains of Hyde Abbey, consists of chancel 28 ft. 1 in. by 18 ft. 4 in., small north vestry, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… ABBEY Winchester: Hyde Abbey Gateway In the most northerly of the old suburbs of the city, St. Bartholomew, Hyde Street, the old Roman road … Street meets the North Walls and City Road, passes west of the site of Hyde Abbey. There is a red brick house in Hyde …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… (xiii cent. et seq.). Winchester lies in the valley of the Itchen, surrounded by chalk down-land. Roman roads … it into touch with Southampton, and so with the centres of continental trade. The present area of the city is 1,906 acres, that within its ancient walls …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of Winchester was created by Ethelwulf, father of Alfred the Great, in A.D. 856 1 there is no authentic …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th century. The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the foundation of prosaic …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Berry Hedge Lane in 1846, and by 1871 it had an attendance of 56 boys and 50 girls. In 1874 it was vested by the vicar of Winshill (as the sole manager) in the school board … in 1874 opened a school for girls and infants in the angle of Church Hill Street and Hawfield Lane. 3 The school …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in 1668 for not coming to church may have been followers of the Presbyterian Thomas Ford, who lived in Winshill and … and on Census Sunday 1851 it had an afternoon congregation of 13, beside Sunday school children. 8 It was replaced by a … were evidently resumed, and a chapel was built at the end of North Street in 1863. 11 From 1922 the building was used …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ins. SY 89 NE, SY 89 NW, ST 80 SE) This parish has an area of 2,559 acres and lies on both sides of the Winterborne stream, at altitudes between 160 ft. and … Until 1650 Kingston was combined with the adjacent parish of Bere Regis ( Dorset II, 1122); since then the civil parish …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 miles (N. W.) from the town of Wisbech: …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It was originally of the long, narrow shape usually found in Wisbech hundred, … Bank'. The alterations made under the county Review Order of 1933 and the Ministry of Health Provisional Orders …