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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… as surviving executor of Sir James Lancaster, Knt., and by direction of the will of the said James, dated 18 … hundred pounds in trust for a weekly lecture at Burton on Trent, co. Staff.; the preacher to receive yearly the sum of … is still paid annually to the lecturer at Burton-upon-Trent (usually the vicar of the parish), upon a certificate …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a discharged vicarage, united to the rectory of Hockwold, and valued in the king's books at 6. 7. 6. The church is in the decorated and later styles, and consists of a nave and chancel, … Downs, being those to the north of the Kennet and Avon canal, and Salisbury Downs or Plain, consisting of nearly all …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the S.E., north-westwards to Cranborne Chase. The central and northern parts of the area, on Chalk, are drained by the headwaters of the R. Allen and the R. Crane which flow through broad, open valleys … extends to the W. Of three mounds (032114) beside the canal which joins the lake to the grotto (6), two are 15 ft. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… W. by Ermine Street, with some adjustments in either case, and on the S. by the river Rhee. The boundary on the E. with … it rises to a scarp over 250 ft. above O.D., through chalk and gault, to river gravel at about 50 ft.; but the chalk … affords the usual plentiful springs of water. Both Wimpole and Orwell have gained territorially from the disappearance …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wincanton - Windy Nook Wincanton (St. Peter and St. Paul) WINCANTON ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a … station for one officer and 12 men. The Royal Military canal commences at Cliff-End, and passes by the town parallel …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … of the Cannell.' No dust or filth was to be swept into the canal and every alderman was weekly to view the making clean …
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 … pasture, 1520 arable, and 80 woodland. The Grand Junction canal, and the London and Birmingham railway, run along the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the union of Winchester, hundred of Fawley, Winchester and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, of a mile (N. … This is a small parish, north of the road to Alresford, and east of the river Itchin.See Winchester. Winnersh … a township, in the parish and union of Burton-upon-Trent, hundred of Repton and Gresley, S. division of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… a single one-storeyed block with a projecting gabled front and two gabled porches. Under a Scheme of 1909 their … the trustees of the Consolidated Charities of Burton-upon-Trent. 15 Harriet Walton Jefford (d. 1922) left money for the … the trustees of the Consolidated Charities of Burton-upon-Trent. 16 By will proved in 1859 Joseph Wilson of Burton mill …
A History of the County of Stafford
… were actually being worked, of which 2 were on the demesne and 1 1/2 was worked by 10 villani; the remaining ploughteam … 9 The main area of common meadow lay along the river Trent stretching north from Burton bridge. Pasture rights … 8 MILL A mill recorded on the Winshill side of the river Trent in 1086 became the principal corn mill for Burton manor …