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A History of the County of Sussex
… with traces of a moat, adjoining the site of the Bishop's Palace. 1 The boundary follows the rife, crossing the … railway, to the course of the disused Arundel-Chichester Canal. Here it turns south-east by Lidsey, to meet another … leaving ways and setting up gates for access to each man's piece. 16 A further 400 acres of common at Westergate were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Sands, N. division of the county of Lancaster, 5 miles (S.) from Ulverston; containing 907 inhabitants. Immediately … of Roosebeck. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 39. 19. 2., and in the patronage of the Crown; net … greatly facilitated by the Wyrley and Essington Extension canal, now incorporated with the Birmingham canal, and which …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… W. divisions of the county of Worcester, 7 miles (W. by S.) from Worcester; containing 434 inhabitants. This place is … rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, 9 miles (S. E.) from Lewes; containing 668 inhabitants. It is bounded … horses is held on the 6th of August. The Kennet and Avon canal affords facility for the conveyance of goods. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by Henry VI on 20 May 1438, 2 and at the archbishop's request the king accepted the title of co-founder ( tanquam … Cat St., within St. Mary's, was the meetingplace of the Regent Congregation, and on either side of Charlton's Inn … the further intention, expressed in the statutes, that regent masters in arts should pursue the study of theology, …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… of Allerthorpe and close to Stone beck. Allerthorpe's name suggests a subsidiary Scandinavian settlement, but … are based upon sand and gravel deposits. 5 Allerthorpe's open fields lay on the higher ground around the village, … the eastern boundary, but in 1818 the Pocklington canal was completed along the beck's course. 12 Part of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of whom 154 are in the township of Allerthorpe, 1 mile (S. W. by W.) from Pocklington. The general surface of the … On the east the parish is bounded by the Pocklington canal, and it is also contiguous to the road between York and … the parish of Childwall, union and hundred of West Derby, S. division of the county of Lancaster, 5 miles (S. E.) from …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… parcel of the possessions of the abbey of Bury St. Edmund's, except a portion that belonged to Richard Fitz-Gilbert, … in June. The living is a recrory, valued in the king's books at 11, and in the gift of the Crown: the tithes have … is skirted by the Exe, and intersected by the Exeter canal. It comprises 2223 acres by computation; granite is …
A History of the County of Stafford
… suit at the manor court in 1769 was 58. 72 The township's population in 1801 was 391, rising to 467 in 1811. It was … the market place called the Board in 1850 and the Butcher's Arms in 1860 became the Grapes c. 1866. 81 A horse post … There were boys' and girls' boarding schools by the 1840's and a solicitor lived in the village in 1864. 88 Longnor's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Runcorn, Second division of the hundred of Eddisbury, S. division of the county of Chester, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from Frodsham; containing 314 inhabitants, and … near the river Derwent, on the London road, and the Derby canal runs through. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the parish of Old Swinford, union of Stourbridge, S. division of the hundred of Seisdon and of the county of … Kendal ward and union, county of Westmorland, 25 miles (W. S. W.) from Appleby, and 274 (N. W. by N.) from London; … This place is intersected by the river Anker, the Coventry canal, and the road from Tamworth to Ashby-de-laZouch. It was …