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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of 13th-century date, 4.6 m. wide and at least 8 m. long with floors and yards of limestone and pebbles. Finds … faced E., arranged around a small court. To the W. are two long, parallel scarps 0.25 m. high, running E.W., which are … Tithe Map) is a modern arable field bounded on the W. by a long rectangular pond and with four cedar trees on its N. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of ditched or scarped closes and building-platforms with long narrow ditched closes extending to the stream behind … at 107 m. above OD. The field it occupies is called Hall Close (G. Baker, Hist. of Northants., II (183641), 153; NRO, … On the S. side of the enclosure and to the S.E. are two long narrow paddocks bounded by ditches and containing …
A History of the County of Northampton
… parish, and on the south-west the town of Towcester lies close to the parish boundary, from which Easton Neston is … an additional supply. The aqueduct was almost a mile long, with a cistern half-way along its course. It was the … Handley and 'Pury' (probably Paulerspury, where there is a long history of quarrying), 64 and for digging and burning …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… stone slates (see Sectional Preface). Easton lime was long held in high esteem, and the supply of fuel for burning … and an aisle was added on the S. In the mid 13th century a long chapel was added on the S. side of the chancel to which … the Trinity; late 15th or early 16th-century; (2), long limestone tablet with indents for Lombardic lettering, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… the only remains of the common fields take the form of long low sinuous ridges up to 600 m. long and 30 m. wide. These former headlands are still visible … remains consist of the later mile-course, now visible as a long narrow strip of land, almost exactly one mile (1.6 km.) …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in an uninterrupted succession of its owners for so long a tract of time, Henry de Ferrers (progenitor of the … A short distance from the village is Eaton Hall, long a seat of the Antrobus family. Eaton EATON, a township, … was given by King John to Ardulphus de Braci, and not long afterwards belonged to the Cantilupes, who built a …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, p. 353. Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, p. 400. Cal. Close, 128896, 112. S.R.S. i. 148; iii. 59, 103; extra ser. … 389. S.R.S. xvii. 5. Ibid. 151; Cal. Pat. 13916, 169. Cal. Close, 14059, 456; Dugdale, Mon. vi. 335 n.; P.R.O., C … to hold of Horsington manor: S.R.S. xv. 15761. Cal. Close, 12961302, 84. Cal. Pat. 141622, 418; Feud. Aids, iv. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… effigy of knight, crosslegged, in complete chain mail and long surcoat, with long shield; mid 13th-century, well preserved. Piscina: in …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… one of the sons of Philip, first Earl of Chesterfeild, not long since [viz. 1657,] to Huntington Plumptre, Esq. Doctor …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… derived from the jonquil, a species of Narcissus which has long linear leaves and spikes of fragrant white and yellow …