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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… CHIPPENHAM Chippenham, 34 lying 3½ miles (6 km.) northeast of Newmarket (Suff.) and 10 miles (16 km.) north-east of Cambridge, is a middle-sized parish of c. 4,300 a. (1,740 ha.). It lies in a projection of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Chipping Ongar is a parish and small town 11 miles west of Chelmsford and 21 miles north-east of London. 1 It has been known in the past as Castle Ongar. 2 The modern form of the name dates from the 14th century and relates to the …
A History of the County of Essex
… CHIPPING ONGAR from High Ongar (q.v.). By the will of Thurstan, son of Wine (or Lustwine), 1043-5, 'the wood at Ongar, except the … 1159 the king granted de Lucy 100 acres of assarts 'in the forest from Stanford, and Greenstead and Ongar'. 57 Richard …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Chirk - Clocaenog Chirk CHIRK, a parish, in the union of Oswestry, hundred of Chirk, county of Denbigh, North Wales, 5 miles (N.) from … north by Chirbury, in Shropshire; on the south by the Clun forest, which runs nearly parallel with the boundary of the …
Old and New London
… agmine." Virgil, "n.," ii. Earliest Historical Records of ChiswickSutton ManorChiswick EyotThe Parish ChurchHolland, … presently. With this single fact we must be content with regard to the early history of Chiswick, till we come to the … Pope in miniature has shown, A Bathurst o'er the widening forest spreads, And such as form a Richmond, Chiswick, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… though 'Chorlegh' was known. 1 The single-township parish of Chorley, tmother parish of Croston, did not behough … roads, ' is now a grassgrown piece of land, bearing forest trees planted after the hall was destroyed.' 129 The … great hall, the floor cutting across the openings without regard to the position of the transoms, or, indeed, to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Churchdown Chorlton CHORLTON, a township, in the parish of Backford, union of Great Boughton, Higher division of the hundred of Wirrall, … Christchurch is situated on the borders of the New Forest, and between the rivers Avon and Stour, which, uniting …
Survey of London
… sacristies entered from the staircase lobbies at the end of each aisle. Similar but slightly larger lobbies at the … features so well related that it has been customary to regard them as basic features of the original design (Plates … to the needs of a galleried auditorium church. A fine regard for Roman precedent may have prompted Hawksmoor to …
Survey of London
… account CHAPTER XII - Christ Church The foundations of Christ Church, Spital fields, were begun in the summer or autumn of 1714 and the foundation stone was laid in 1715. a Its … July 1729, having cost about 40,000 to build. It was one of the six churches designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor as …
Old and New London
… HOSPITAL. The Grey Friars in Newgate StreetThe Origin of Christ's HospitalA Fashionable Burying-PlaceThe Mean Conduct of Sir Martin Bowes Early Private Benefactors of Christ's … Clare, Earl of Gloucester, twenty great oak beams from his forest at Tunbridge and 20; the good Queen Philippa, wife of …