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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 … district richly fertile; the lands are watered by a fine stream, which crosses the town under the streets and houses, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 14th century, when the bounds of land belonging to Hawk's Yard, west of Bank House, included places then called … 62 There was a house at Higher Wigginstall beside a stream south of Rewlach, certainly by the early 16th century … 72 Houses there were probably the cause of the township's rapid growth in population in the early 19th century. The …
A History of the County of Stafford
… an adjacent site in the later 1890s. 82 The site of Badger's Croft further west was probably inhabited by 1308, when … disturnpiked in 1878. 13 A surviving stone bridge across a stream northwest of Stoney Cliffe carried a packhorse way … Stonieway, apparently near Hardings Booth. 49 About 1680 a stream issuing from a mine at Blue Hills was used to dye …
A History of the County of Stafford
… its position at the mouth of a short ravine formed by a stream which flows north into the Dove: when first recorded … certainly stood on the site of Nield Bank, 95 and Dun Cow's Grove was recorded as Duncote Greave in 1600. 96 Gamballs … of that name in Quarnford which was the centre of the area's button trade. 20 Obadiah Tunnicliff, who was living at …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Harpur Crewe, changing it to Harpur-Crewe in 1961. Yates's Map Of The County of Stafford 1775 (Part) Scale Reduced To … in Alstonefield. Game shooting was resumed, and keeper's lodges were built in the early 1850s in Fawfieldhead and … estate to pay death duties. 19 In 1986 the family's 4,629 a. (1,873 ha.) of moorland there passed in lieu of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was opened north-east of the village in 1959. 18 A Women's Institute was formed in 1962. 19 The belief that coins were … may have originated in the early 13th century, when Hugh's grandfather owned a park in Quarnford. 23 Hugh Despenser … Quarnford to Sir Roger Swynnerton, along with Despenser's share of Alstonefield manor and his manor of Rushton …
A History of the County of Oxford
… HISTORY Agriculture Open Fields and Commons Alwoldsbury's field or fields were mentioned in 12467. 1 No later … or late 18th century; a northwards extension over the mill stream was partly rebuilt in 1845, 126 with a new arch and … and presumably earlier. 129 In 1909 fishing in a 'trout stream' in the brook was sold with Shield farm. 130 PRO, JUST …
A History of the County of Oxford
… parishes of Black Bourton and Kencot, Alvescot's ancient parish was long and narrow, running from north to … Thames may have been part of the same process. The parish's 18th-century boundaries (Fig. 10), essentially unaltered at … Lane, and on much of the west Langhat ditch and another stream; elsewhere they mostly followed field and furlong …
A History of the County of Warwick
… near the mill, the 'Doddanford' of 985; and lower down the stream opposite Cliffe Cottage is the probable site of … as 966. 11 Domesday records three mills here, worth 40 s. and 12 sticks and 1,000 of eels. 12 In 1240 there were two … in 1570. 16 The settlement of the same estate which Edmund's grandson Thomas made at the time of his marriage in 1650 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… along the south side of an ancient assart called Prior's Mesne and then descended a small brook by the west side of … the land rises steeply to reach 140 m. near Prior's Mesne and 125 m. at the Barnage ridge. Cone brook has been … boundary where Barnage grove formerly adjoined the stream. 78 A forge called Barnage forge later stood there 79 …