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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Shipston-upon-Stour, Brailes division of the hundred of Kington, S. … and bounded on the north by a branch of the river Stour. It comprises 2679 acres; the surface is undulated, and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… neat, and pleasantly situated on the right bank of the Stour. The Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal passes … on an elevated site commanding beautiful views of the Stour valley. William Seabright, in 1620, bequeathed property …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… iron to many of their other iron-making concerns in the Stour Valley area. Thomas Foley (1616-77) paid the Charltons … Co. and Boulton & Watt for melting-iron, and John Knight (Stour Valley), John Addenbrooke (Wollaston and Lightmoor), … VIII/3006, m. 21; above, Mills. Sel. Rec. Phil. Foley's Stour Valley Iron Wks. 1668-74, i (Worcs. Hist. Soc. N.S. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on, but not so extensively as formerly. On the river Stour and its tributary streams, are several very … Rivers are the Severn, the Upper Avon, the Teme, and the Stour. The Severn is navigable for vessels of 80 tons' … the scenery on its banks is particularly beautiful. The Stour is navigable for a short distance to some of the …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… bynde etc. ad bene [ger?] The inhabitants of Shipston upon Stour. Ref.110 BA1/1/28/12 (1618) The peticion of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… S.W.) Wormingford is a parish on the right bank of the Stour, 6 m. N.W. of Colchester. The church, Church House and …
A History of the County of Essex
… 51 Mixed farming was carried on at Bowdens farm beside the Stour in the 16th century. 52 Church Hall manor lay in the … including the 8 a. of land, partly bordering the river Stour, which Thomas le Harpur gave to the prioress and nuns … was woodland for 116 swine. 57 Alder groves near the river Stour were recorded in the early 13th century. 58 A piece of …
A History of the County of Essex
… parish of Wormingford on the south bank of the river Stour, 6 miles north- west of Colchester and 8 miles … of Sudbury (Suff.), covered 2,322 a. (929 ha.). 33 The Stour forms the northern boundary, and the eastern, southern, … relatively high plain which drains northwards to the river Stour and southwards to the river Colne. From the Stour the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It is bounded on the north by the navigable river Stour, and comprises by measurement 1075 acres, of which 72 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… xx. S.E.) Wrabness is a small parish on the S. side of the Stour estuary and 5 m. W. of Harwich. Ecclesiastical (1). …