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A History of the County of Essex
… manors in Mount Bures and West Bergholt. 98 Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, and Henry I granted it to … Mountfichet. In 1267 on the death without issue of William's descendant Richard de Munfichet, the overlordship passed to … in 1375. His heir was his nephew Richard Poynings, Michael's son. 5 By 1383 the manor was held by Richard Waldegrave. 6 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… in Buckinghamshire Worminghall 100. WORMINGHALL. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxi. N.E. (b)xxxi. S.E.) Eccleslastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Peter and St. … roof is thatched. ConditionPoor. b(8). The Clifden Arms Inn, about 400 yards W.N.W. of the church, is of two storeys. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton College: the … wapentake of Allertonshire, N. riding of York, 3 miles (S. S. W.) fromYarm; containing 143 inhabitants. This … of 1036 a. 2 r. 34 p., which, with the exception of a few fields of arable land, and about 4 acres of plantation, is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Worth Matravers 53 WORTH MATRAVERS (9777) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 97 NE, bSY 98 SE) Worth Matravers, a parish covering 2,700 acres, lies in the S. part of the Isle of Purbeck, 3 miles W. of Swanage. It … by impressive flights of strip lynchets of the former open fields of Worth Matravers. In the N. of the parish the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… had led to the accumulation of shingle, and Worthing's former fine, hard sands 78 had been replaced by a pebbly … 87 Those conditions were a principal cause of Worthing's growth as a resort, and afterwards of the expansion of the market-gardening industry 88 and of the town's popularity as a site for convalescent homes. In the Middle …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of Findon and Sompting transferred to Worthing in 1933. O.S. Area Bk. (1876). Worthing Town and Market Act, 43 Geo. … Smail, Map Story, 53, 75. The boundary was not shown in O.S. Map 6", Suss. LXIV (1879 edn.). Census, 1871. L.G.B. Prov. … Act, 1875, 38 & 39 Vic. c. 175 (Local); Census, 1881; O.S. Map 6", Suss. LXIV. SW. (1899 edn.). Census, 1891-1971. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… in 1300 99 and in 1493. 1 In 1560 the east and west common fields were recorded, 2 and by the mid 17th century the … eastern edge of the former east field on John Winchester's allotment by 1838. 27 It was called Sea Mill Park farm by … 84 After 1810 a weekly corn market was held in a near-by inn. 85 A fortnightly corn market recorded from 1831 86 was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… to be a former court-house. 37 There may also have been an inn. 38 There seems also to have been scattered settlement … was influenced by the direction of strips in the open fields which preceded them; those north of Warwick Street all … Montague streets north-south. 48 Bedford Row and Copping's Row, later Marine Place, south of Warwick Street, were …
A History of the County of Sussex
… AND PUBLIC SERVICES Manor Court books of Worthing manor's court baron survive from 1544 to 1925. 91 The court's jurisdiction was presumably over that part of Worthing … Town hall The town commissioners first met at the Nelson inn in South Street, and after 1812 at the Royal George in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… had been built by 1796, of which the two chief, the New Inn, later the Marine Hotel, and the Sea House, later the … by 1811, and a master of ceremonies c. 1813. 19 Worthing's original promenade was the sands, but by 1811 they had been … at the junction of High and Warwick streets, and Stafford's Marine library, west of what was later the Steyne Hotel. 31 …