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A History of the County of Oxford
… Cassington, once an island, on its southern bank. A small brook which rises on Bladon heath and flows south through the … roads ran through Cassington. One, the medieval 'king's way', called in 1310 the king's road from Bladon bridge to Oxford and in the 18th century …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Chapel-Head Close, near which is a well, called St. Coume's, probably a contraction of St. Columbe, the tutelar saint … 53 acres. The church is a small edifice, partly of later Norman architecture, and partly in the early, decorated, and … is an elegant specimen of the most enriched style of Norman architecture. The conventual buildings are at present …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Christ Church, 3 already owners of the site of St. George's-in-the-Castle. The college leased the site to Oxford … war or disturbance the castle, normally in the sheriff's charge, was entrusted to special keepers. Thus Brian … 34 and remained so in 1974. The surviving motte of the Norman castle is c. 250 ft. in diameter at its base, 81 ft. …
A History of the County of Essex
… The surviving building, 46.3 m. × 33.5 m., is the largest Norman keep in England, larger than the White Tower of London … to Eudes the sewer. 11 It escheated to the Crown on Eudes's death in 1120, and remained in the king's hands, although … in the bailey be rated in All Saints' parish. 71 The Norman castle was built in at least two main stages. 72 In …
A Survey of London
… vp to the south east gate of Powles churchyard, and by S. Austens church, is of this ward. About the midst of this … against the houses of Laurence de Brooke, in the parish of S. Andrew next to Baynards Castle: which tenements lyeth … a soke (or warde) in the Citie, that was by the wall of S. Paule, as men go downe the streete before the Brewhouse of …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… gravel but the Cary and its tributaries, notably the Back Brook, run through alluvium, which widens in the west under … the Somerton road west of Clanville and passes Fulford's Cross to become Mill Lane and continues as Woodcock Street … A gatehouse was built at Clanville but removed to Fulford's Cross c. 1800 and in 1801 moved back to the junction of the …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… by Ralph Lovel, probably the son or son-in-law of Walter's son Geoffrey, 13 and Ralph's son Baldwin. Ralph Lovel, successor to the last, held … 4 16. View over Castle Cary from above the site of the Norman motte and bailey castle, which had inner and outer …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… Cary - Religious History RELIGIOUS HISTORY CASTLE CARY'S religious history is dominated by the parish church. … in 2002. 12 Income and Property The rectory, worth 13 6 s. 8 d. in 1291, 13 belonged to Bath priory until the … Castle Cary Visitor April 1905, Mar. 1907. SRO, A/AQP 9. A Norman tub font in the museum was said to have been found in …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… living with his family. 2 Thomas Salisbury Donne's daughter acted as housekeeper assisted by two servants in … a servant. 4 During the later 20th century Castle Cary's role as a centre for the surrounding area was reinforced … residential care homes in the parish including Cary Brook local authority home near the church for 36 residents …
A History of the County of Stafford
… but rises in the south-west to about 450 ft. The Rising Brook rises in the south of the parish and crosses it in a … southwesterly direction; the road to Lichfield, 'the king's highway' of the Middle Ages, later turnpiked from Radford … arch, smaller than the present one, was also said to be Norman. 422 The chancel had at least one lancet window 423 …