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Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… and Ulpha WITHERSLACK, MEATHOP AND ULPHA. The mesne manor of Meathop and Ulpha with land at Crackenthorpe in Beetham was an early feoffment by one of the lords of Beetham in the twelfth century. Henry de …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WITTENHAM, LITTLE ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Wallingford, hundred of Ock, county of Berks, 4 miles (N. … Sinodun Hill, in the neighbourhood, is surrounded by an ancient intrenchment supposed to be British, and to have … structure; in the 14th century it contained a chantry in honour of St. Nicholas, also a chantry dedicated to St. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of Kingsbury, W. … ravine" or "dell." The town occupies a gentle eminence, in an extensive valley inclosed by lofty hills, which suddenly … which had gone to decay. A Benedictine nunnery in honour of the Virgin Mary, was founded here in the time of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Andrew) WOLLASTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county … with his crew, was frozen in the North Sea in 1554, in an attempt to discover a north-west passage to China. … and endowed it with so many privileges that the town, in honour of Wulfruna, was called Wulfrunis Hamton, whence its …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… WOLLATON, OLAVESTON. In Olaveston (through corruption of speech now called Wollaton) there was of William Peverells … for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve bovats. … Thomas Lord Middleton, his brother. who succeeded to the honour and estate, was married in April the 7, 1770, to …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Udeburgh WOODBOROUGH (Udeburgh.) In Udeburg the book of Doomsday shows that St. Mary of Sudwell had Sok to … these Tayn-lands it seems came to be Peverells, of which honour Henry, son [rather brother] and heir of Raph de … Thomas de Rampston, Reginald de Aslacton, &c. 4 In an ancient deed Emme, who had been wife of Raph de Wodeburch, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 cassati of wooded land at Woodchester was made to the bishop of … and his son Ahlmund. 45 The bishop no longer owned an estate in 1066 when there were two estates at Woodchester, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the parish was regarded as a single township. 96 View of frankpledge was exercised by the lords of the three ancient manors and by the prior of Thetford, who … in 1276. 97 The honor of Richmond's free tenants attended an honorial court in 1334. 98 The only medieval court rolls …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and 1742. After 1920 the Stetchworth estate included much of the parish. Ditton Camoys and Ditton Valence manors … their names in the later 13th century from the surnames of the families which had owned them from c. 1200. 57 DITTON … (for life) in 1283, Robert de Crvecoeur, gave it back in an exchange in 1285, 69 when it was assigned to Queen Eleanor …
The Environs of London
… WOODFORD Etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land. Soil. This place was so called from the ford in the … wood, where Woodford-bridge now is. It lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the distance of about seven miles and a half … grandson (in the female line) Sir James Tylney Long, Bart. an infant. Manor-house. The manor-house (which adjoins to the …