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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Agrimony was a popular domestic medicinal herb from Anglo-Saxon times due to its astringent and diuretic qualitities, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… has partly been rebuilt, has a Norman tower, with a small Saxon arch outside; the chancel is also ancient, and has a …
Survey of London
… the United States are of the North-American Anglo-Saxon civilized type'. South America is 'equipped for the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 1556 inhabitants. The name is compounded of the Saxon terms Ald, old, and bourne, a brook. Aidbourn anciently … large edifice, and contains a circular stone bearing this Saxon inscription: "Ulf commanded this church to be built for …
A Dictionary of London
… is not given in Kemble, Birch or Thorpe. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ed. Plummer and Earle, p.181) mention is … foreigners from "ael "=foreign. This word "ael" in Anglo-Saxon, besides being used in place of the prefixes " eal "= … builder, as this personal name was in general use in Anglo-Saxon times. The east gate of Gloucester was known as …
Old and New London
… to the north. Some say it was named after Aldrich, a Saxon, who built it; others, says Stow, attribute it to the … name, according to all old London antiquaries, from the Saxon words, "burgh kennin," or "postern tower," the remains …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of Aldingbourne is obscure, depending upon copies of Saxon charters 18 which are certainly corrupt in detail, … as we have seen, was linked with Aldingbourne in the Saxon charters, and the manorial over-lordship remained with …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… lies to the S. of the brook in Islip parish (15). For Saxon finds from the area, see (18). b(1) Neolithic Mortuary … (22) Garden remains Medieval and Later b (18) Anglo-Saxon settlement and burial (centred SP 997803) found during … just 2 m. deep, with a hearth nearby associated with mid-Saxon pottery, was also discovered. The body of a man, with a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 754 inhabitants. This place derives its name from the Saxon Earl Algar, who in 870, aided by his seneschals Wibert …