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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… 376 are in the village of New Aberdour, 8 miles (W. by S.) from Fraserburgh. The name of this place is supposed to … Aberdeen; the patron is A. D. Fordyce, Esq.; the minister's stipend is above 200, with a manse, built in 1822, and a … Blairgowrie, and Newburgh; and attached to each of their cottages, is a portion of land sufficient to maintain a cow, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… The living is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's books at 12. 9. 9.; patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph: the … the interest of which, together with a rent-charge of 10 s. bequeathed by Edward Hughes, is paid to the master of the … In 1846 a school was established under Dr. Williams's endowment, from which the master receives 25 per annum, in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… county of Berks, of which it is the county town, 6 miles (S.) from Oxford, 26 (N. W. by N.) from Reading, and 56 (W. N. … king of Wessex; on which institution Ceadwalla, the king's son and successor, bestowed the town and its appendages. … acres are arable, 268 meadow, 64 wood, and 19 occupied by cottages. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… block of land covering 437 hectares and extending S. from its boundary with Moulton Park at 106 m. above OD … N. and Upper Lias Clay, fluvial gravel and alluvium to the S. A stream rises in the N. of Abington Park and runs S.E. … record the village as consisting of four farm houses, 20 cottages and four other tenants of charity (NRO, Clayton (2); …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 64 SE) The small parish occupies about 790 hectares on the S. side of the R. Tove. Its W. and E. boundaries are defined … (map in NRO). A more regular pattern of closes further S.W., around Abthorpe Manor ('b' on plan), probably indicates … farmsteads still stood, but the other farm and one of the cottages both shown on the 1726 map had been abandoned, as …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Aconbury 2 ACONBURY (D.c.). (O.S. 6 in. (a)XXXIX, S.E., (b)XLV, N.E.) Aconbury is a parish 4 m. S. of Hereford. The church and Aconbury camp are the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… shown in solid black.) 1 ACTON BEAUCHAMP (D.b.) (O.S. 6 in. XXVIII, N.E.) Acton Beauchamp is a small parish on the Worcestershire border 4 m. S.E, of Bromyard, formerly in Worcestershire. The carved … walls are of local sandstone and the roofs are tiled. The S. doorway is of c. 1200 and was re-set when the whole church …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… entirely rural and, despite the proximity of the county's main north-south route through the Stretton gap, fairly … Quinny or Marsh brook marks the central part of the parish's north-western boundary where the land falls steeply down … houses, 35 several of them presumably squatter cottages in Oakwood, where a cottage had been licensed in …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… tenements on the west side of the Steyne, where six cottages were built for the poor 67 with the aid of sums … Thorney, by will dated 1612, left a rent charge of 20 s. On Conduit close, of which at least 6 s. 8 d. was for repair of the conduit and the rest for the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 72 One farm, leased by the chapter of St. Paul's to successive deans, c. 1230 had 4 oxen, 4 horses, and 100 … was poor and rarely cultivated; meadow was valued at 1 s. an acre in 1327, 1 s. 6 d. in 1373, pasture at 3 d. in … 4 sheep and 2 cows or a cow and a horse only. Occupants of cottages built within the last 20 years had no sheep commons …