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A History of the County of Somerset
… of Bridgwater. The ancient parish was almost rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from … open. NOTABLE RESIDENTS AND NATIONAL EVENTS The Hody family originated as unfree tenants at Woolavington, and … Nether Stowey through his daughter Isabel to the Chandos family. Maud de Chandos gave it to her youngest son Henry de …
A History of the County of Sussex
… The parish, with an area of 1,950 acres and a population in 1931 of 288, is some 4 miles from north to south, with an … manor is unknown, but it is then found in the hands of a family who took their name from the place. In 1192 Roger fitz … Sir John Mill, bt. 28 and the manor descended in this family until 1791, when the Rev. Sir Charles Mill sold it to …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… junction of the Chalk and the Gault Clay. Woolland occurs in Domesday Book (Vol. I, f. 78), with a recorded population … Parish Church (of unknown dedication) was entirely rebuilt in 1855 but it incorporates fittings from the previous … E. H. Bailey; (3) of John Feaver, 1788 and others of same family, oval inscription panel of white marble, with arms. In …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woolminstone - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division … in the reign of Elizabeth were possessed by the Jennison family. Woolsington Park is a handsome seat. Woolstanwood … of Makerfield. How long the property continued in this family does not appear, but it seems to have been alienated …
The Environs of London
… Woolwich WOOLWICH. Name. THIS place in old charters is called Hulviz, Wolwiche, Wollewic, &c. I … possessed of it, though not by sale from the Boughton family. Sir Christopher Heydon was in possession of it in … held by Government under lease from the Bowater family 51, being parcel of the manor of Southall. This …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woothorpe - Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of … The church contains numerous monuments to the Monoux family. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. … king's books at 4. 18. 4., and in the gift of the Giffard family; net income, 203; impropriator, Lord Yarborough. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Wootton Fitzpaine 96 WOOTTON FITZPAINE (A.d.) (O.S. 6 in. ( a)XXVII, S.E. ( b)XXVIII, S.W. ( c)XXXVI, N.E. ( … slate-covered. There is some 12th-century material reused in the building, but the Crossing, N. and S. Transepts and … N. of (2), to Sarah Palmer, 1818, servant to the Drewe family for sixty-four years. In churchyardE. of chancel, (4) …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the flat meadows and oolitic gravels of the Upper Thames in the south to the rich 'red land' of the ironstone uplands around Deddington in the north; between them is the undulating stonebrash of … granted to John Churchill, duke of Marlborough, in whose family it remained. 17 The foot levies of Wootton hundred …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were affected by intercommoning and other forest customs. In the Anglo-Saxon period Eynsham was an important centre, its early minster church succeeded in 1005 by Eynsham abbey, which remained a dominant influence … area here treated. 2 From the later 19th century the Mason family at Eynsham Hall built up a large estate in the west of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. 92 The suffix in the parish's name is the surname of lords of the principal manor and was in use in the 14th century. 93 In 1300 the land between the …