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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… of Amesbury, requesting common rights in the forest of Melksham]. 103 (102). To the petition of the prioress and … that the king grant the same prioress and her tenants of Melksham common [p. vii-63] of pasture [...] in the forest of Melksham etc., this answer is given: the king cannot answer …
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England
… from John de Besyl, from the manor of Woodrow, a member of Melksham, which the queen, the king's consort, holds, should … see SC 8/61, no. 3006 Plaint from Yorkshire William of Melksham complains to our lord the king and his council that, … of the aforesaid William released them. He gave William of Melksham this harsh treatment while the king was out of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… not to renew the contracts of a number of farmers in Melksham. This alarmed the farmers, who were afraid of losing … milk. They prevailed, therefore, upon Charles Maggs of Melksham 62 to buy a separator and establish a collecting … and butter factory in a farm dairy in Semington Road, Melksham. The only condition which Charles Maggs imposed on …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… or before 1214 Henry of Winchester granted to Richard of Melksham 1 hide in Alvediston, 171 which was held in 1222 by …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… its course through the parish, and links Bradford with Melksham and Devizes to the east, Trowbridge and Westbury to … in Church Street, now the offices of the Bradford and Melksham Rural District Council, is a fine late-18th-century … road and Wansdyke, and to the east lay the parishes of Melksham and Broughton Gifford. The parish of Great …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… distance south-west of Calne. On the west it borders on Melksham Without, and on the north-east on Calne Without. 1 … roads lead east and west off this. A secondary road from Melksham (B 3102) enters the parish in the west and runs … north-west of Bromham village on the secondary road from Melksham to Calne. Opposite the New Inn is a range of early …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… BROUGHTON GIFFORD The parish of Broughton Gifford adjoins Melksham on the west. A small strip of land south-east of … Gifford, beyond the Avon, is common to this parish and Melksham Without. The parish lies in the Oxford and Kimeridge … east to about 200 ft. in the west. 1 The main road from Melksham to Bradford (A 3053) enters the parish in the east …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and Richard to his son Henry. 54 In 1724 Henry Long of Melksham conveyed the manor, or 'reputed manor called …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 321v.322v. T. E. Vernon, Notes on All Saints, Crudwell (Melksham, priv. print. 1962), 16. Above; Nightingale, Wilts. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… as the chapel of Erlestoke was annexed to the church of Melksham it seems likely that the manor also was included in that of Melksham. 7 No early records have been traced for Erlestoke: … 18 in 1220 he was allowed some timber from the forest of Melksham for repairing the manor house 19 and in 1226 he and …