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A History of the County of Leicestershire
… 1920. MANOR. Before the Conquest, WISTOW was held by two Saxon freemen, Edwin and Alferd, who owned also the … and Saddington; it is believed to be on the line of a Saxon road. 12 It crosses both the Sence and the canal by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Tunsted, a hill in the township, is supposed, from its Saxon etymology, viz., "the place of a town," to have been …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… bone combs, perhaps late Romano-British rather than Saxon as originally reported, and human skeletons. TBGAS, 58 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 10th-century estate suggests that a late Anglo-Saxon estate-centre existed on or near the same site. 7 The precise location and topography of the late Saxon settlement remain uncertain, however: the parish church … to be of post-Conquest origin, and no evidence of Anglo-Saxon occupation elsewhere in the town has yet been found. 8 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ecclesiastical parish, conterminous with the late Anglo-Saxon estate, was large for Oxfordshire, covering 7,182 a. … area may have been divided between different late Anglo-Saxon parochiae, with territories north of the river Windrush …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 575 inhabitants. This place was visited in 477, by Ella, a Saxon adventurer, who, with his three sons, landed here and defeated the Britons drawn up to oppose him; on the shore is a spot still called Ella-nor-point. Wittering was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with certainty: conjecture has deduced the latter from the Saxon Willi or Vili, signifying "many," and Combe, "a deep … a still more ancient building; and a variety of Roman and Saxon coins was found, together with some Nuremberg counters, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wifa's ridge or spur of land, 24 suggests early Anglo-Saxon settlement. In 1066 Wivenhoe manor had a recorded popu- …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Medieval and Later Medieval pottery, including some late Saxon handmade sherds, was discovered during trenching near … J. Northants. Mus. and Art Gall., 10 (1974), 38). b(31) Saxon Site (SP 90446252), immediately S.W. of the village and … at 68 m. above OD. An occupation site, said to be of mid-Saxon date, has been found here, together with pits and other …