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A History of the County of Berkshire
… castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest Edward the Confessor had … been held by Queen Jane Seymour; the manors of Taplow and Upton, with the parsonage of Upton, which had belonged to the monastery of Merton; the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was held by Ansfrid de Cormeilles who had received it on his marriage to a niece of Walter de Lacy, 45 although … manor that Despenser acquired, reverting to the Crown on the death of Catherine Parr in 1548. 61 The Crown sold the … his debts. It was bought in 1793 by Richard Haviland of Upton St. Leonards, who sold it to Joseph Pitt of Cirencester …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 818 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the river Colne, comprises about 7000 acres: the soil is … How, his wife, and nine children, in a small cross aisle on the south side of the church, the burial-place of the … net income, 80; patron and appropriator, the Rector of Upton Magna: there is a parsonage-house, and the glebe …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town stands at an early crossing of the river Windrush, on a limestone cornbrash island formerly lying between two … suggests that a late Anglo-Saxon estate-centre existed on or near the same site. 7 The precise location and … 89 From 178990 the rival Oxford canal and Thames and Severn canal, with wharfs at Lechlade (Glos.), Radcot, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… stretching across the parish from the river Wye to the Severn. Towards the Wye the parish is bounded by a range of … containing 1120 inhabitants. The parish is bounded on the east by a portion of the county of Bedford, and … 427 inhabitants. It is situated near the Severn, on the road between Shrewsbury and Welshpool, from which …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… north from Watling Street to Wombridge priory, perhaps on the line of the later Hadley Road. Priorslee probably grew … the Ketley Canal before passing through Oakengates to the Severn. The coalfield was given access to the county town by … Wood. 80 A horse-drawn railway was built in 1747 on the Charltons' Oakengates estate from the Horsepasture …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and Seburga of Hadley and their son Alan gave land bounded on the east by a stream dividing Hadley wood from the king's wood (Wrockwardine wood), on the west by Springwell brook, and on the south by Watling … accessible to the large populations between it and the Severn. 14 The town's range of commercial and professional …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… in 1922. 34 By 1882 the Hadley & Trench Gas Works stood on the south-western edge of Trench Pool, and in 1912 the … above, Lilleshall, Public Services. A. H. S. Waters, Rep. on Water Supplies (S.C.C. 1946), 24. Above, Eyton, intro. Telford Jnl. 7 Aug. 1975; inf. from Severn-Trent Water Auth., Wellington. Inf. from Salop Area …
Alumni Oxonienses
… of Middle Temple 1597, as 2s. Richard, of Stratford-on-Avon, co. Warwick, gent. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg. … Judges and Barristers. Woodward, Thomas s. William, of Upton-onSevern, co. Worcester, gent. Balliol Coll., matric. … 1629, M.A. 26 June, 1632; perhaps rector of Oldbury-on-Severn, co. Worcester, 1657. See Foster's Index Eccl. [ 35] …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… has a commodious landing-place for coal, lime, and gravel; on its banks are some mills, and there are other large mills … WOODSFIELD, a hamlet, in the parish of Powick, union of Upton-upon-Severn, Lower division of the hundred of Pershore, Upton and …