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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The parish comprises by measurement 1884 acres of land; and contains good building-stone of the granite species, and limestone, both of which are quarried. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 9. 9. 4., and in the gift of the Rev. Thomas Fox: the tithes have been …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Abbess Roding AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN CENTRAL AND S.W. ESSEX. ACCREDITED TO A DATE ANTERIOR TO 1714, … (b)xlii. N.E. (c)xlii. S.W.) Abbess Roding is a parish and small village about 5 miles N.N.E. of Chipping Ongar. The …
A History of the County of Essex
… Abbess Roding Introduction ABBESS RODING Abbess Roding and Beauchamp Roding (q.v.) form the south-west part of the … Roding as part of its name. Of these parishes only Abbess and Beauchamp Roding became part of Ongar hundred, the others … is less clear in this case. 1 Geographically Abbess and Beauchamp Roding have much more in common with the other …
A History of the County of Essex
… HALL) was held by Leuild (probably a woman) as a manor and 3 virgates. In 1086 it was held by Geoffrey Martel as … had previously been in the possession of Barking Abbey 'and he who held this land was only the man of Geoffrey's predecessor, and had no power to put this land in possession of anyone but …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… the hamlet of Cevnpawl in the hundred of Kevenlleece, and the hamlet of Gollon in the hundred of Knighton, county … to St. Mary, was founded in 1148, by Cadwallon ab Madoc, and was originally designed for sixty brethren of the … in a romantic valley, deeply embosomed among lofty hills and abrupt precipices, once covered with forests of oak, but …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Abbey Dore AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN SOUTH-WEST HEREFORDSHIRE … m. S.W. of Hereford. The principal monuments are the Abbey and Grange Farm. Roman c(1). In the station yard in 1908 the … for a length of about 30 ft. It was 12 ft. 9 in. wide, and consisted of "unworked nodular limestone hand-pitched on …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… bank of the Nethan, a fine stream tributary to the Clyde, and is in the centre of the parish, and contains the … a highly improved state, and the farm-buildings, and the inclosures and fences, are kept in excellent repair. Few … in the separation from the Poor's hospital of the adult inmates and girls, and the subsequent appropriation of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Abbotsbury AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN WEST DORSET Arranged by Parishes … S.W. (b)XLVI, S.E. (c)LII, N.E.) Abbotsbury is a village and parish on the coast 8 m. S.W. of Dorchester. The church, St. Catherine's Chapel, the remains of the Abbey and Abbotsbury Castle hill-fort are the principal monuments. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Abbreviations ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORTENED TITLES OF WORKS OF REFERENCE Ackerman, J.Y., … Iceni', Britannia 1, 133 Allison, K.J., Beresford, M.W. and Hurst, J.G., 1966 The Deserted Villages of … England before 1600, 186247 Baker, G., 182234 The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton, 2 vols. Baker, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Abbreviations ABBREVIATIONS Among the abbreviations and short titles used the following may require elucidation: … Plac. (Rec. Com.) Placitorum Abbreviatio, ed. G. Rose and W. Illingworth (Record Commission, 1811) acct. account … a Biographical List to 1900, comp. J. Venn and J. A. Venn, Part I, to 1751; Part II, 1752-1900 (Camb. …