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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… South Winterborne 4 miles W. of Dorchester. It is entirely on Chalk, with extensive areas of later gravel deposits especially on the higher S. parts. From the S. boundary on the crest of … nave. A comparable angel survives in situ at Bradford on Avon. Parish Church of St. Michael, Winterbourne Steepleton …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants are supplied with water by pipes from a spring on Mawndown, a hill about a mile distant. A woollen manufacture is carried on, but not on so large a scale as formerly; the articles … ( St. Milburg), a parish, in the union of Alcester, Stratford division of the hundred of Barlichway, S. division …
A History of the County of Essex
… amount of copyhold land near Wivenhoe Cross and some on the east side of High Street just south of Wivenhoe Hall. … Colchester, owned 120 a. called Withemorhad and Nordhei, on the south side of the road to Tendring (presumably via … in 1508, and probably earlier, corn and oats were taken to Stratford and Stapleford Abbots, other manors held by the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 1120 inhabitants. The parish is bounded on the east by a portion of the county of Bedford, and … and Wolstan. The parish is intersected by the river Avon, and partly bounded on the south by the road from … county of Buckingham, 1 mile (E. N. E.) from Stony-Stratford; containing 1261 inhabitants. This parish, which …
A History of the County of Oxford
… chief baron of the Exchequer. 65 Walter settled the manor on his second wife Anne and the children of that marriage, … granted Edith, the first abbess, the land called GODSTOW on which she had built her abbey, and soon afterwards he, … Church, one part in 1729 under the will of Dr. William Stratford and the other in 1737 from John Lyon. 79 Two closes …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Holy Trinity Church, Old Wolverton, 1 mile E.N.E. of Stony Stratford, was re-built in 1815, except the two lower stages … with rebated jambs and pointed head; it opened probably on to the roof of the original S. transept. Fittings Brasses … white marble classic detail, with recumbent figure of man on base, urn at the top, inscription at back and arms of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wellington; containing 2057 inhabitants. It is situated on the Roman Watlingstreet, and comprises 677 acres of arable … net income, 82. The church is a brick edifice, built on the site of a structure which fell into ruins in 1760. The … is flat, the soil chiefly sand and clay. The Kennet and Avon canal passes through the parish, and on its banks is …
Alumni Oxonienses
… & Add. MS. 15,671, p. 5 b. Woodward, Joseph s. Ric., of Avon-Dassett, co. Warwick, gent. Oriel Coll., matric. 6 July, … perhaps student of Middle Temple 1597, as 2s. Richard, of Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick, gent. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… de Wodeburg his brother, to be received of the Abby of Stratford, during his life. 6Walter de Huntercumbe, son of sir William de Huntercumbe, knight, (on both whose seals were two pair of Bars Gemelles, and the … his son Sampson de Strelley was father of this Richard: on the said Robert de Stretleys seal within a fair …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… elaborate account of these relics in 1797. The village is on an eminence forming part of a range of hills which inclose … landscape. The manufacture of woollen-cloths is carried on extensively; in the neighbourhood of the village not less … The parish is bounded on the east by the river Avon, and comprises by computation about 3000 acres, the soil …