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A History of the County of Somerset
… two streams flowing down from the Quantocks; Idstock's were in part two brooks and, at its western end across … in a single night. 90 A second meander known as Viking's pill, also around part of Pignes and Horsey, was cut off by … South of Pignes but on the east side of the Parrett stood buildings described in 1822 as Ship Pool. 96 Apparently the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… gave the church with its dependent chapels to St. John's hospital, Bridgwater, 30 and in 1336 the hospital was … Dissolution. 33 Chilton and Idstock were valued at £5 6 s. 8 d. in 1291 34 and the gross income of Chilton was £8 o s. 2½ d. in 1535. 35 It was said to be worth £60 in 1668, 36 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… elsewhere which was alienated from the holding in Henry II's reign. 23 John held Pignes of the king in chief by the sergeanty of usher or porter of the king's hall. 24 Pignes evidently passed to William the usher (fl. 1199), 25 and by 1207 to William's daughter Helen of Wigborough, who married Eustace of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the Thames, near Duxford, presumably represented the river's earlier course. 19 The name Chimney, meaning 'Ceomma's island', reflects its low-lying position surrounded by … south-west of modern Chimney Farm, with a few agricultural buildings east of Lower Farm; there were then three farms, …
The Environs of London
… anciently written Cingeford 1, which signifies the King's Ford. It lies in the hundred of Waltham, at the distance of … of about 2s. 6d. in the pound. Manors. Chingford-St. Paul's. From the earliest times there have been two manors in this … parish, one of which belonged to the church of St. Paul's, before the Norman Conquest 3. The dean and chapter …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Chingford 18. CHINGFORD. (B.d.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)lvii. S.W. (b)lvii. S.E. (c)lxv. N.W.) Chingford is a parish and suburb of London …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Barwick, and Coker, W. division of Somerset, 4 miles (S. W. by W.) from Yeovil; containing 735 inhabitants. It is … rough walls. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at 6. 7. 8., and in the patronage of the Crown, with … 254 pasture. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 7. 9. 7., and in the gift of the Earl of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… where Kennett had been detached by 1086. Chippenham's western boundary was straightened in 1801. On the … of the Tharp family from 1791, has dominated the parish's landscape since the 18th century. No ancient woodland … ripped out trees, and a tenant challenged his landlord's rights to plant trees on leased farmland, but between 1810 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when the earl of Essex confirmed the tithes of Chippenham's demesne to the preceptor, but in 1284 the abbot of Walden only recognized 1 a. of the preceptory's warren to be free of tithe. 16 The abbots of Walden … 14 a. of arable, lying in 21 strips in four of Chippenham's fields, and 1 a. of pasture in Badlingham. 20 In 1791 the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Earl Hereric, who bought out his younger brother Leofwine's rights in Downham with land at Chippenham given them by … but by 1130 had reverted to the Crown. 14 By 1136 William's son, Geoffrey (cr. earl of Essex 1140, d. 1144) held the … the preceptor of Carbrooke, and Thomas Bowles was North's tenant in 1544. 20 Thomas, who had also inherited the …