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A History of the County of Berkshire
… the Earl; 'then it was taxed 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, and there are no grounds for assuming it to be older than the … William, the castle was no doubt raised by his orders, 3 and from the first it has been the special stronghold of the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the … early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries. 1 During the Saxon period, when Edward … 2 the site of the later castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is nearly in the centre of the peninsula of Holderness, and consists of about 2000 acres. Two-thirds are arable, and one-third under grass, among the latter of which are … above 200 acres of wood; the surface is undulated, and the soil a strong fertile clay. The living is a rectory, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wing 223. WING … village; the walls are of limestone rubble, with dressings and detail of stone and clunch. The roofs are covered with lead. The polygonal …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wingrave 224. … xxix. N.W.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, stands in the middle of the village and is … and vaulting, two angels with haloes holding a strip of linen continued over their shoulders with fringed ends; above …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… (whose fee it became afterwards) 1 had in demesne two car. and fifteen sochm. on four bov. of land, and seven vill. five bord. having seven car. There was a church, and sixteen acres of meadow, pasture wood one leu long, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… were three ploughs on the demesne of Winstone in 1086 and eight servi were employed. 81 The amount under plough at … to one plough-land with 20 a. of wood, 5 a. of meadow, and 2 a. of pasture, 84 and remained as such throughout the 14th century. 85 During …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Street the parish is confined by that road on the east and by the river Frome on the west; the northern boundary is … in part by a stream which meets the Frome at Washbrook, and the southern follows field boundaries. The parish in 1971 retained its ancient boundaries and comprised 1,491 a. 1 With the exception of the wooded …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Winstone Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. In 1086 the manor of WINSTONE was held by … Cormeilles, 51 held land at Winstone in 1177 or 1178, 52 and in 1216 the lands of Ralph and Henry of Pembridge at …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… lies across the valley of the South Winterborne, and slopes up onto the S. Dorset Ridgeway to a height of … Winterborne Came, now only represented by Came House, and Cripton, on the site of the present Came Home Farm. Each … all men for God Judgeth all things'; side bays with linen-fold lower panels and open upper panels with modern …