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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… junction of the Chalk and the Gault Clay. Woolland occurs in Domesday Book (Vol. I, f. 78), with a recorded population … Parish Church (of unknown dedication) was entirely rebuilt in 1855 but it incorporates fittings from the previous … immediately W. of Chitcombe Farm on the W. side of a small valley. The settlement is first recorded in 1327 (Fgersten, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woothorpe - Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of … Benedictine nunnery dedicated to St. Mary, existed here in the time of Henry I., and was united in the reign of … family, who formerly held the manor. It is situated in a valley between the heights of Grabhurst and Dunkery, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… partly on the flat river gravels of the Thames valley, was not a distinct region; some villages looked to … were affected by intercommoning and other forest customs. In the Anglo-Saxon period Eynsham was an important centre, its early minster church succeeded in 1005 by Eynsham abbey, which remained a dominant influence …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. 92 The suffix in the parish's name is the … measured 705 ha. 96 The parish boundary follows a dry valley and a ridge on the south-east, but no prominent … a curving north-south street. 17 The street runs along a valley a little west of the floor, and at its north end was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a union, locally in the county of Worcester, of which it is the capital, … their arms, and the enemy advancing on all sides, every hope of victory was dispelled; Cromwell carried the royal … in the southeastern part of the county, including the Valley of the Avon, the adjoining uplands to the north of …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… good meanes and [illegible] [...nt?] remedye may be taken. In tender consyderacion whereof, and [illegible] sayde … of the truthe and by [illegible] [illegible] tratours and in due execution of justice and [on?] her majesties … widowe whom he hath lately most gretly abused which we hope will be a greate occasion of quietnes and good …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Ref.110 BA1/1/16/29 (1601) To the right reverend father in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of … with this your peticioners daughter (which she had by one Hope, her first husband) and about some five yeares agone … churchwardens Edward Cowper George [Milloerd?] John Hope John Chackwell Richard Gatfield William Baker Hanley to …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… that money shulde be taxed upon certaine inhabitantes in sondry parishes, within this countie, towardes the necessary relief of the late infected persons, in the tythinge of Whitstone, betwene the parishe of Claynes … anie abuses to be committed in his howse, and soe wee hope he will contynue, if yt may stand with your good …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… right worshippfull the Kinges majesties justices of peace in the countye of Worcester. May yt please your worshipps, … certificattes preferred by us the parishoners of Bayton in this countye of Worcester whose names are thereunto … their tippleing and aleselling, and keeping disorder in their howses, yet the said Thomas Byrd for his parte ys …