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A History of the County of Sussex
… Aldingbourne ALDINGBOURNE The parish contains 3,098 acres and measures 4 miles from north to south with an average … mile. It is mostly good agricultural land lying between 25 and 50 ft. above sea-level, but rising to 120 ft. on its northern edge. The church and village lie near the centre of the western boundary, here …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… parish of Aldsworth lies 6.5 km. south-east of Northleach and 5 km. north-east of Cirencester. In 1976 it covered an area of 1,356 ha. (3,350 a.) 1 and was irregular in shape with the boundaries marked by field boundaries save on the west and part of the south where they followed the river Leach and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Abbey of Lonlay in Normandy. It never became denizen and after the great war with France it was suppressed and its estates used for the endowment of the College of St. … grant 1 made in the time of Henry I by William de Falaise and Geva his wife of the church of St. Andrew of Stoke to the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… canons, those namely of St. Martin's, London, Wells, and this of Steyning. Yet its claim to notice rests rather … with its antiquity than with its size or importance, and its history is meagre and obscure. The church and manor of Steyning were granted to …
A History of the County of Sussex
… he had obtained the earldom of Sussex, gave certain lands and advowsons to the abbey of Sez, with a vacant site in … secular canons from the church of St. Nicholas at Arundel, and introduced in their place this small priory of four or … Yapton, Rustington, Billingshurst, Kirdford, Cocking, and half Littlehampton, as well as the manor of Yapton and …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… wardrobe of the monks of Bec in 1107-33 by Brian FitzCount and Maud of Wallingford; a second charter of a date between 1122 and 1147 refers to the grant of both Ogbourne St. George and Ogbourne St. Andrew; and a confirmation of the grant of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 1 By 1141 the abbey held churches in five counties, 2 and it was probably in the 12th century that it established … two cells in England, one at Ecclesfield (Yorks.) 3 and the other at Upavon. In the time of King John the abbey's holdings in Whitchurch, Sherston, and Wilsford were given to the Bishop and Cathedral of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the abbey founded by his father at Grestein in Normandy, and not the least important of his donations was the grant of the manors of Wilmington and Frog Firle in Alfriston, which, with two hides in … Domesday Survey. To this he added a burgage in Pevensey and forest rights in Ashdown Forest; his son William gave …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Tony gave the church of Wootton Wawen with all its tithes and oblations, and an adjacent hide of land, together with a hide at … by Nicholas de Stafford, the founder's son, temp. Henry I, and by Robert de Stafford his grandson, temp. Henry II. A …
A History of the County of Lincoln
… 118. THE PRIORY OF WENGHALE The date of the foundation and the name of the founder of this little priory are alike … c. 1115, for then the monks of Wenghale held 1 carucate and 4 bovates in Owersby of the Earl of Mortain. It was a … of the abbey of Ses in Normandy, for Benedictine monks, and the earliest appointment of a prior is dated 1223. 1 …