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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… master; and an infants' school. Considerable portions of a Roman road uniting with the "old Coventry road" in the … a mile from Beighton, are thought to have formed part of a Roman station.See Hackenthorpe. Beighton (All Saints) … 10 per annum for the instruction of children. In 1833, a Roman jar, containing more than a hundred coins of the early …
A History of the County of York
… The City in the 11th Century, p. 19. Romano-British York Roman troops were garrisoned at York for more than 300 years … in the history of the empire to earn a mention by Roman writers. Between 208 and 211 the Emperor Severus was at … military expeditions and it was as the strategic centre of Roman Britain that the fortress was most important. While …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ministry in the parish. 96 The establishment in 1897 of a Roman Catholic priory close by the church seems to have led …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it Begbroke Place and gave it in 1908 to be a hostel for Roman Catholic priests, a role it served until 1924. 34 It …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were bought by Charles Robertson, who gave them to the Roman Catholic Servite Order, which in 1897 opened the house …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to be nine. 23 Begbroke House was bought in 1896 for the Roman Catholic Servite order and, renamed St. Philip's … in 1897. 24 The priory inevitably became a centre for Roman Catholicism over a wide area, extending as far as Bicester in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… place, from the remains of several camps apparently of Roman origin, is supposed to have been occupied by that … of worship for Seceders from the Scottish Church; also a Roman Catholic chapel. The poor law union of Bellingham … the top of the how, or hill, west of the castle, is an old Roman camp, the fosses of which are still very perfect; and …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… and was extensively known as the author of a work on the Roman Antiquities in the adjoining village of Burgh, entitled …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the garrison, dismantled the fortifications. The Roman way leading from Alchester to Wallingford crossed the …
A History of the County of London
… Foundation of Westm. Abbey, 2. But for possible traces of Roman occupation of Westminster, see V.C.H. London, i. Said … on account of the immediate subjection of the abbey to the Roman see, was abolished in 1478 at the request of Edward IV; …