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A History of the County of Leicestershire
… doorhead dated 1636 and carrying the initials R.S. and E.S. was found built into a brick summer-house on the same … it was originally given to the abbey by Ethelred of Mercia about 700, but Domesday Book ascribed the gift to Earl … at Great Easton altered this state of affairs after 1870. E. B. Whyley (d. 1903), Cape's successor as headmaster at …
Broadwell Parish: Broadwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… estate held probably by Aelfgar (d. 1062), earl of Mercia. Domesday Book implies both a large population and a … by 1086; 10 the surrounding area was called Cottesmore (i.e. Cott's marsh) by the late 10th century, when it was held … and Kelmscott, was held by Aelfgar (d. 1062), earl of Mercia. 13 The manor appears to have remained largely intact …
Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… Kelmscott) was probably held by Aelfgar (d. 1062), earl of Mercia. Both estates were still exceptionally large and … was held by serjeanty of mewing the king's goshawk (i.e. confining it during moulting), while a 'semi-free' estate … in French Gothic style by the diocesan architect G. E. Street, with an apsidal chancel; it has been described as …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… union of Cerne, Cerne division of Dorset, 12 miles (N. by E.) from Dorchester; containing 188 inhabitants. … Bromyard, hundred of Broxash, county of Hereford, 3 miles (E. N. E.) from Bromyard; containing 88 inhabitants; and … Brimesburgh, by Ethelfleda, the celebrated Countess of Mercia, about 912; but it was demolished previously to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the union of Woodbridge, hundred of Wilford, E. division of Suffolk, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from Woodbridge; containing 200 inhabitants. It … it had been distinguished as the residence of the earls of Mercia. Leofric, the husband of the famous Lady Godiva, died …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the heptarchy, it became part of the powerful kingdom of Mercia. Buckinghamshire is in the diocese of Oxford and … Farringdon, hundred of Ganfield, county of Berks, 3 miles (E. N. E.) from Farringdon; containing 946 inhabitants. It is …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… the belfry, in the tyme of prayer, upon the Lord's day, y e iiij th of August." On the 2nd of September, 1652, Bungay … and did some dammage to the church of St. Trinity, to y e loss of about thirty thousand pounds." 14 The year 1688, in … near Duke's-bridge. A silver penny of Offa, King of Mercia, with the name of his moneyer, 'Othelres,' was dug up, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a market-town, in the union and hundred of Wangford, E. division of Suffolk, 40 miles (N. N. E.) from Ipswich, 40 … III., and a fine silver Saxon penny of Offa, King of Mercia, have been found during the present century near the … little westward from the town, between Ethelbald, King of Mercia, and Cuthred, King of the West Saxons, who had …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Michael), a parish, in the union and hundred of Keynsham, E. division of Somerset, 2 miles (S. by E.) from Keynsham; comprising 607 acres by measurement. The … It appears to have been the residence of the kings of Mercia during the heptarchy, and also of their successors of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of whom 4863 are in the market-town of Burton, 24 miles (E.) from Stafford, and 124 (N. W. by N.) from London. This … is the only part visible. In 1004, Wulfric, Earl of Mercia, founded an abbey for monks of the Benedictine order, … Broxton, S. division of the county of Chester, 2 miles (S. E. by S.) from Tattenhall; containing 458 inhabitants. The …