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A Dictionary of London
… occupied by offices and business houses. Name derived from the sign, or perhaps there may have been a windmill in the … No later mention. Windmill Alley East out of Shoe Lane, on the north side of the Windmill Inn, in Farringdon Ward … An old tavern at the corner of Old Jewry and Lothbury. Stow identifies the site with that of the house of the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… castle Architectural history ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF THE CASTLE The castle of Windsor appears first in history in … for 5 hides, now for 4 hides, and the castle of Windsor is on the (other) half hide.' 1 The castle was thus a new work, … to have taken place. Liberate R. 24 Hen. III, m. 22. See Stow, Ann. (ed. E. Howes, London, 1631), 206. Exch. Accts. …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be … castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest Edward the Confessor had … worth of provisions 84 were taken into the tioned by Stow as having done much damage to the castle in 1295 does …
Survey of London Monograph
… Windsor Herald WINDSOR HERALD The office of Windsor is said to have been instituted for the … sent to England with news of the battle of Auray, fought on 29 September 1364, and whom King Edward forthwith … left no children. Had many books, presumably his father's; Stow complained that he kept them too long from the sight of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Winshill Introduction Introduction Lying on what was formerly the Derbyshire side of the river Trent, Winshill was … a. (245.6 ha.), was taken into Burton municipal borough on its extension in 1878, 1 and under the Local Government …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with Flasby WINTERBURN, with Flasby, a township, in the parish of Gargrave, union of Skipton, E. division of the … from Skipton; containing 140 inhabitants. It is situated on the east side of the Aire, and intersected by a tributary … a salubrious position on the eastern side of one of the Wold hills, about two miles south of the Humber. A …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride the Well Stream. Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and … and Upwell has been illustrated at least twice in books on the English countryside. 5 William Watson's description, … Wormegay at the death of Hugh Bardolf in 1304, when with Stow Bardolph it was extended at a capital messuage, 265 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Witcham (St. Martin) WITCHAM ( St. Martin), a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, on the road to Chatteris; containing 502 inhabitants. The … WITHCALL ( St. Martin), a parish, in the union of Louth, Wold division of the hundred of Louth-Eske, parts of Lindsey, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction WITNEY BOROUGH Introduction The town of Witney, 1 by the river Windrush some 10 miles (16 … town stands at an early crossing of the river Windrush, on a limestone cornbrash island formerly lying between two … Hailey and Charlbury, part of a route to Banbury and to Stow-on-the-Wold (Glos.), was turnpiked in 1800 and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the hundred of … inhabitants are supplied with water by pipes from a spring on Mawndown, a hill about a mile distant. A woollen … Wolborough.See Woolborough. WOLBOROUGH.See Woolborough. Wold, in the county of Northampton.See Old. WOLD, in the …