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A History of the County of Essex
… Aldham Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. A manor in … in Fordham. 14 Before 1247, and probably after 1232, Laurence of St. Martin, later bishop of Rochester, bought the manor of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Aldingbourne ALDINGBOURNE The parish contains 3,098 acres and measures 4 miles from north to south with an average … Land called Worth (Werda, Wurda) was given by William de St. John and others to Boxgrove Priory, 79 where its revenues … window and a doorway in the south. Parish Church of St Mary Aldingbourne The floor of the nave originally rose …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Aldingham - Alfreton Aldingham (St. Cuthbert) ALDINGHAM ( St. Cuthbert), a parish, in the union of Ulverston, hundred … the reach of a high tide. The soil is a friable loam and marl, constantly melting down; and the sea threatens …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… parish of Aldsworth lies 6.5 km. south-east of Northleach and 5 km. north-east of Cirencester. In 1976 it covered an … followed the river Leach and a short section of the Coln St. Aldwyns road. The Leach broke its banks in 1412 2 and … 296 In 1639 the curacy was disputed by Daniel Cowley and Laurence Griffith; the latter, who claimed to have been …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… N.W. of the R. Nene at 100 ft. above OD, over a broad and generally flat interfluve some 260 ft. to 290 ft. above OD and then down the S. side of the Lyveden valley, here 200 ft. … Cultivation remains. The common fields of the parishes of St. Peter and of All Saints were enclosed by Act of …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… patterns; farmsteads surrounded by closes between them, and church and manor house by the river Brue. ALFORD, … fill three lights of a north window c. 1935. It includes St Katherine, the Evangelists, St Margaret, St Mary Magdalene, angels and canopies, probably …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Upper division of the hundred of Doddingtree, Worcester and W. divisions of the county of Worcester, 7 miles (W. by … acres and a half. There is a chapel of ease, dedicated to St. Mary, in which marriages, baptisms, and burials are … has been vested in the schoolhouse and land. Alfriston (St. Andrew) ALFRISTON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union …
A History of the County of Rutland
… ALIEN CELL 6. THE PRIORY OF EDITH WESTON The abbey of St. Georges de Boscherville for Benedictine monks was founded … chamberlain to the Conqueror, about the year 1050: 1 and the manor and church of Edith Weston were added to its … clerk to the parish church. 7 But before 1394 the abbot of St. Georges obtained permission to sell his rights in the …
A History of the County of Worcester
… of Ralph de Todeni, of whom it was held by the abbot of St. Taurinus, Evreux, in France. Four hides were held free of … stated; it was a cell subject to the abbey in France and endowed with the manor and church of Astley. Among the deeds of the abbey of St. Taurinus is a charter granted by Richard I. in January …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of William Rufus, as a cell of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin at Sées in Normandy. Sées formed part of the … inheritance of his mother, the notorious Countess Mabel, and its abbey, refounded in 1060 by his father, received … the churches of Walton and Kirkham to the abbey of St. Peter at Shrewsbury, the chief English foundation of the …