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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Blankney - Blenkinsopp Blankney, or Blackney (St. Oswald) BLANKNEY, or Blackney ( St. Oswald), a parish, in the union of Sleaford, Second division of the wapentake of … E.) from Market-Harborough; containing, with Blaston St. Giles, 102 inhabitants. The chapel is a small plain building. …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… Harborough and five miles south-west of Uppingham (Rut.) in the valley of a small stream which is a tributary of the … area; it was formerly divided into two chapelries, Blaston St. Giles and Blaston St. Michael, each with its own chapel. 1 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a parish of 815 hectares on either side of Willow Brook. The S.E. part of the parish is on Oxford Clay, partly overlain with Boulder Clay. In the Middle Ages there were two parishes, each with a … on opposite banks of the stream. In 1448 the W. parish of St. Mary Magdalene was united with the E. parish of Holy …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 8 BLATHER WYCKE (OS 1:10000 a SP 99 NE, b SP 99 SE) The parish, lying in the former medieval Rockingham Forest, covers an irregular … possible that the two former parishes of Holy Trinity and St. Mary Magdalene, united in 1448, were centred on separate …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bledisloe Hundred BLEDISLOE HUNDRED In 1086 Bledisloe hundred comprised Awre manor and its former … and two unidentified estates, possibly both within the later Awre parish. It totalled c. 19 hides. 1 Most of the … mid 12th century in a reorganization that created the new St. Briavels hundred. 5 Blakeney tithing, in Awre parish, was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Bledlow 9. BLEDLOW. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxvii. … Ecclesiastical b(1). Parish Church of Holy Trinity, in the middle of the village, is built of flint, with dressings … The remains of medival mural paintings, notably that of St. Christopher in the N. aisle, are also interesting. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim Blenheim Palace Blenheim Palace In the winter of 1704-5 John Churchill, duke of Marlborough … (1952), 42. Country Life, clvii (1975), 262; illus. in St. James's Budget, 1 Feb. 1895. Called the east or small …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lies c. 8 miles (12 km.) north-west of Oxford, adjoining the west side of Woodstock. 20 In origin it was Woodstock Park, an ancient royal hunting … section of Grim's ditch, is Akeman Street, which connected St. Albans and Cirencester and was one of the principal Roman …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim Park from 1705 Park From 1705 The laying out of the gardens and park, begun in 1705 at the same time as the building of Blenheim Palace, … the duke, together with a long panegyric composed by Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke. 41 By 1728 the fluted Doric …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim Park to 1705 Park to 1705 A park around the king's houses may have been defined before 1086 when … to the nearby royal manor of Wootton was said to be in the king's enclosure ( in defensione regis). 30 Chroniclers asserted that Henry I …