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A History of the County of Gloucester
… 3 took its name from a bank. 4 Two short sections of Offa's Dyke, once the boundary between the lands of the … 1881. P.N. Glos. (E.P.N.S.), iii. 211; iv. 158. C. Fox, Offa's Dyke (1955), 184-5. Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i. 167v. Cf. …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… and south part of Ballykoven in the Barony of Iffa and Offa, co. Tipperary; 336 acres in Cabragh and part of … Toberheny, Templehegan et al. in the barony of Iffa and Offa, co. Tipperary, granted 20 Nov., 1666, to Hugh Radcliff … and Clonbegg with Lissawilling, in the barony of Iffa and Offa, granted 22 June, 1666, to John Dawson at 27 l. 4 s. 0 …
Ewelme Hundred: An Overview
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… reliability. By the late 8th century, however, when King Offa of Mercia reportedly seized it from Wessex, Benson was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… river's importance as a boundary is implied in 779 when Offa of Mercia, after defeating Cynewulf of Wessex at Benson, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Teme, lying between the counties of Salop and Hereford. Offa's Dyke passes on the west, between it and the township …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… church or monastery was built here so early as the time of Offa, King of Mercia, of which there were some remains in the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… granted to the bishop (presumably of Winchester) by King Offa. The estate may have been granted to the church as early …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of Bangor was severely punished within sight of its ruins. OFFA, the powerful and warlike sovereign of Mercia, having, … it soon enters Denbighshire. Mr. Pennant conceives that Offa's Dyke, or Clawdd Offa, as it is designated by the Welsh, terminated northward …
A Survey of London
… Abbo Floriacensis, and by Burchard somtime Secretarie to Offa king of Marcia, but since by Iohn Lidgate Monke of Bery, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of Sigerus, king of the East Saxons, and sister to king Offa, partner with him in the government. This obliged his … thought it a fair opportunity to subdue it. Of these Offa, king of Mercia, was one of the most forward. In the year 774, Offa invaded Kent, and fought a famous battle with Aldric, at …