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A History of the County of Sussex
… Aldingbourne ALDINGBOURNE The parish contains 3,098 acres and measures 4 miles from north to south with an average … mile. It is mostly good agricultural land lying between 25 and 50 ft. above sea-level, but rising to 120 ft. on its … Palace. 1 The boundary follows the rife, crossing the railway, to the course of the disused Arundel-Chichester …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the reach of a high tide. The soil is a friable loam and marl, constantly melting down; and the sea threatens … 733 inhabitants. It is crossed by the South-Eastern railway; and comprises 3576 acres, of which 320 are in wood. … and Essington Extension canal, now incorporated with the Birmingham canal, and which passes a short distance west of …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… patterns; farmsteads surrounded by closes between them, and church and manor house by the river Brue. ALFORD, formerly noted for … can still be seen in the pasture fields either side of the railway. The name Alford, formerly Aldedeford 2 then …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Upper division of the hundred of Doddingtree, Worcester and W. divisions of the county of Worcester, 7 miles (W. by … of the county of Lancaster, 4 miles (N. N. E.) from Manchester; containing 338 inhabitants. The Levers were … where is a station of the Newcastle and Carlisle railway. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… inheritance of his mother, the notorious Countess Mabel, and its abbey, refounded in 1060 by his father, received … church passed to the Grelleys, in whose barony of Manchester the manor had long been included. Thomas Grelley … 269. Ibid. 272, 280. Ibid. 276. Ibid. 275. Tail, Mediaeval Manchester and Beginnings of Lancashire, 167. Ibid. 168; …
A Dictionary of London
… Rothewell, parson of the church; the plot was 12 ft. long and 27 ft. broad (Cal. P.R. Ed. 111.1348-50, p.295), and in 1350 another plot 40 ft. in length by 20 ft. in … that year. Removed for the extension of the Great Eastern Railway lines. Alleys Two passages called " alleys " in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of the Souls' ( Collegium animarum), was planned, built, and endowed by Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury … 128 The great west window was glazed by Hardman of Birmingham in 1861. 129 Then in 1870 a thorough restoration … Souls College', Historical Essays in Honour of James Tait (Manchester, 1933). A.S.C., Building Accounts, fol. 88. This …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of York; containing, with the townships of Allerthorpe and Waplington, 199 inhabitants, of whom 154 are in the … Pocklington. The general surface of the parish is flat and well wooded. It consists of 1543 a. 1 r. 33 p., of which … 2 miles (N. W. by W.) from Coventry, on the road to Birmingham; containing 963 inhabitants. It comprises by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a township, in the parish of Great Budworth, union and hundred of Northwich. S. division of the county of … chief residence here; it afterwards fell to the Leicesters and Shakerleys. The township comprises 2155 acres; the soil … sandy loam, having a wet sub-soil of marl and clay. A tram railway for the conveyance of coal from Brecon to Kington, …
A Dictionary of London
… ed. 1720, I. ii. 47). The alleys were called Harp Alley and Lilley Alley in 1656, and consisted of 22 small tenements, while two other … obliterated. Removed for the extension of the Metropolitan Railway, c. 1884. Perhaps named after the consort of William …