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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… may account for the complete lack of any sign of houses or house platforms. (R.A.F. V.A.P. CPE/UK 1934: 3093.) a(21) …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Nene outfall, to the owners of commonable messuages or tenements in Leverington. Each allotment appears to have … Field, Outnewlands, Fen Croft, Church Croft, Paps Field or Hill Croft, Seafield, Ives Dyke Field or Doole, Park Field, Woolcroft or Walcroft, Wratfield, and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from all claims of the Bishop of Ely and the inhabitants or others claiming under them. The remaining part of the … to the hundred. The following roads were laid out: Sutton or Lincolnshire Road (10 a. 2 r. 28 p.). Hundred Acre or Wesel Hill Drove (now known as the Little Ramper) (3a. o …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… persons afflicted with palsy, rheumatism, gout, blindness, or any other complaint which might render them objects of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The parish comprises 2740 acres, of which 370 are common or waste. It anciently belonged to the priory at Bodmin, of … a co-heiress of the Alansons, who married Roger de Withnil or Wythenall. By a charter of the 11th of Edward III., the … 1787 a. 2 r. 31 p., of which 592 acres are common or waste: limestone is quarried, and burnt for manure. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… as well as more obvious rivals such as Burford, Bicester, or Abingdon (then Berks.). Even by the 1540s and 1550s, when … in the 16th century and later drawn from the town or immediate area. 11 From the 17th century Witney maintained … a new fulling mill in Hailey. 27 Other leading fullers or clothiers acquired mills in surrounding villages: the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… school run presumably by local clergy existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a … while a growing number of private and endowed elementary or Nonconformist schools, among them a Quaker school … education, which had included no grammar, history or geography, at a night school run by a former …
A History of the County of Oxford
… gable to the street, perhaps of the late 15th or early 16th century. No. 49 Market Square is a … the town hall, was probably the 'new built' house or tenement fronted with brick mentioned in 1739. 13 The … expressing Jacobite sympathies in the parlour. 356 Plays and entertainments were occasionally performed by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… survival of blocked, single-splayed windows of late 11th- or early 12th-century type high up in the nave of the … completed in 1723, and 'rebuilt' (presumably remodelled or repaired) by Freind's son and successor William in 1754. … recorded rectors between c. 1200 and 1500 were graduates, or men about whom enough is known to assume a higher …
A History of the County of Essex
… increased from 6 to 20 which might suggest incipient urban or port development, but between 1086 and 1327 Wivenhoe … refreshment which in- cluded rye bread, herrings, milk or cheese, and pottage. Customary payments of pannage for … to be transported to London instead. Fishermen trailed for plaice in the autumn and those not involved in yachting in …