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A History of the County of Stafford
… at the end of the Middle Ages. The name Hurdlow combines Old English hord, treasure, and hlaw, a hill or possibly a … 11 By 1818 there was a tollgate at the junction of the old and new routes. 12 The road was disturnpiked in 1878. 13 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the first part of the name possibly deriving from Old English hol, a hollow. 85 The form Hollinsclough, used …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of Home Farm, Hollinsclough, and Susan Gaukroger of Old School House, Hollinsclough, are thanked for their help …
A History of the County of Stafford
… ridge which dominates the area and gives the township its Old English name langen ofer, long slope. 66 The river Dove … some land south of the river was in Derbyshire. 67 The old course of the river Manifold and a tributary brook formed … boundary with Heathylee and Hollinsclough. The old course, still in existence in the earlier 1770s, had been …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 82 The name Quarnford, recorded in 1227, is derived from Old English cweorn, a quern or millstone. 83 The ford was probably over the Dane near Manor Farm, and the name … a house by the earlier 1630s on the site of Gradbach Old Hall, a mainly 19th-century house which retains …
A History of the County of Stafford
… first part of its name, which is apparently derived from Old English weard, guard, and setl, a habitation. 40 There … P.R.O., RG 9/1949; RG 10/2885; inf. from Ros Prince of the Old Nick, Seven Chimneys. Staffs. C.C. deeds, C. 608. Kelly's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Norman and early English architecture, with a curious old painted window in the clerestory, supposed to have been … ( St. Adelwold), a parish, in the union of Louth, Marsh division of the hundred of Louth-Eske, parts of … Bideford; containing, with the hamlets of Fairy Cross, Ford, and Woodtown, 392 inhabitants; and comprising by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a. recorded, presumably in error, at Alvescot. 19 Alvescot Marsh, a common pasture of some 135 a. adjoining the … lord's trustee received 234 a., much of it consolidated in old inclosures, together with some 50 a. for land let on … Bolt (97 a. for Butlers Court farm) also comprised chiefly old inclosures. Awards to some 37 other owners ranged from 1 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bampton boundary was said to run northwards to Alvescot Marsh in the south-eastern part of Alvescot parish; from … from Witney to Lechlade, 18 crossed Shill brook at Shill ford, where a bridge existed by 1774 and was replaced in … reception rooms, and an eastwest corridor linking old and new parts. The house remained a private dwelling and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… there. 34 The 13th-century manor house lay probably in Old Court ground north-east of the church, where earthworks … Farm near the KencotBlack Bourton road, 40 and in 1653 Old Court ground was a vacant close. 41 8. Butlers Court from … Fm; cf. Cal. Cttee for Money, II, 795. A tradition that Old Court close (N-E of the church) contains Civil War …