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A History of the County of Berkshire
… castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest Edward the Confessor had … had been an annual allowance since 1608. 274 In 1631 a commission was appointed to examine into the frauds and … the sum allowed for their maintenance. 578 In 1655 a commission reported that the manor of Carbrooke in Norfolk …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… remainder meadow and pasture; the soil is fertile, resting on gravel. The living is annexed to the vicarage of … 1840, is a handsome structure in the later English style. On Fernham down are several barrows, in one of which … burning into lime, and for building purposes. Coal abounds on the lands of Wingate and Wingate-Grange; on the latter, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… to a height of nearly 500 ft. It is almost entirely on Chalk. Within the boundary of the modern parish there were … Came, now only represented by Came House, and Cripton, on the site of the present Came Home Farm. Each of these had … Taxatio Ecclesiastica (Rec. Commn., 1802) and in 1397 a commission was set up to enquire into its defects (Episc. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Winterborne brook and has an area of 3,436 acres, entirely on Chalk. Until 1933 Milton Abbas parish included the W. part … the eastern group of Winterbornes in Dorset. To the N., on both sides of the brook lay Whatcombe, now Higher … corner of East Down Plantation was carried out by this Commission in 1965. A series of five turf-lines within the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from Skipton; containing 140 inhabitants. It is situated on the east side of the Aire, and intersected by a tributary … containing 694 inhabitants. This place, which is situated on the line of the Roman Ermin-street, was formerly of … are governed by ancient customs, confirmed by a commission of inquiry in 1287; and all disputes and offences …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Oswi, and Leoflede, daughter of Brithnod the first abbot, on the admission into that monastery of their son Ailwin, … is supposed to have taken up his residence in the castle, on leaving which the king attempting to cross the Wash at an … of Chichester: the tithes here of the Ecclesiastical Commission have been commuted for 1171, and those of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of … found in Wisbech hundred, with the church and village on the firm silt land at the north-east end, just behind the … (from Wisbech Borough) of the hamlet of Ring's End, on the Nene opposite Guyhirn. Although it is questionable …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and Upwell has been illustrated at least twice in books on the English countryside. 5 William Watson's description, … Dean of Ely. 12 Welney, about 6 miles south of Upwell on the road to Ely, was an inhabited site in Roman times, but … screen of the hall, a porch with an upper story was added on both sides, and a bay added at the das on the front; about …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to south. The parishes near Wisbech, whose nuclei are on sites just behind the 'Roman Bank', are quite differently … long extensions into the fen. Since, moreover, Thorney is on peat and not on silt fen, the orchards and market gardens … have now died out. Thorney Mill is mentioned in a 1470 commission de walliis et fossatis, 24 and the manorial …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 6 miles north of Wisbech. The Shire Drain divides it on the north and west from the sister parish of Tydd St. Mary … modern course of the River Nene. 2 The neighbouring parish on the south is Newton-in-the-Isle. The most important … in ancient times fall under any special drainage commission. The Marsh now falls within the area of the …