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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Abbess Roding AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN CENTRAL AND S.W. ESSEX. ACCREDITED TO A DATE ANTERIOR TO 1714, … (b)xlii. N.E. (c)xlii. S.W.) Abbess Roding is a parish and small village about 5 miles N.N.E. of Chipping Ongar. The …
A History of the County of Essex
… grant from the abbey. Thomas Wiseman presented in 1565 and John Glascock in 1587. 44 Soon after this the advowson was acquired by (Sir) Gamaliel Capel and descended with the manor until 1680, when Prosper … advowson was conveyed to Richard Waylett by Samuel Pratt and Anne his wife and John Benson and Mary his wife. 47 In …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… bank of the Nethan, a fine stream tributary to the Clyde, and is in the centre of the parish, and contains the parochial church. The inhabitants are … trades requisite for the supply of the neighbourhood, and in hand-loom weaving for the manufacturers of Glasgow and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… Abbots Ripton AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE. ACCREDITED TO A … (b)XIV S.W., (c)XVIII N.W.) Abbots Ripton is a parish and village 4 m. N. of Huntingdon. The church is the … W. side of the village. The walls generally are of stone and pebble-rubble with some freestone; the dressings are of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Abbotsbury AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN WEST DORSET Arranged by Parishes … S.W. (b)XLVI, S.E. (c)LII, N.E.) Abbotsbury is a village and parish on the coast 8 m. S.W. of Dorchester. The church, … rectangular recess with round and perhaps quatre-foiled drains cut back, mediaeval. Plate: Includes a silver-gilt set …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… (O.S. 6 in. XXVIII N.W.) Abbotsley is a small parish and village 3 m. S.E. of St. Neots. The Church is the … pebble-rubble with dressings of Barnack, Ketton, ironstone and clunch; the roofs are covered with tiles and lead. The earliest part of the existing building is the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Brown Clee. Much of its boundary, especially on the south and west, followed streams, but on the east it followed the … Earnstrey Park, a detached township of Diddlebury parish, and a small detachment of Tugford parish around New House. 91 … to 180 m. at the parish's western tip. Most of the parish drains south and west towards Tugford (or Norncott) 94 brook, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… on the south-west by the extraparochial Forest of Dean and included part of the market town of Mitcheldean. 2 Almost … in shape, the parish covered only 770 a. 3 (311.6 ha.) and was divided from Mitcheldean parish to the north-west … of land called the Wilderness west of the Monmouth road and three small detached pieces to the south-east within a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… county of Aberdeen; comprising the village of Pennan, and containing 1645 inhabitants, of whom 376 are in the … short distance below the manse. There are numerous cairns and tumuli, containing stone coffins with the ashes and bones … beginning of the present century, and deep and extensive drains have been constructed; furrow-draining, by tiles and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… SE) The former parish lies immediately E. of Northampton and N. of the R. Nene. Prior to various re-organizations of … was a rectangular block of land covering 437 hectares and extending S. from its boundary with Moulton Park at 106 … Sands with the various deposits of the Estuarine Series and Great Oolite Limestone to the N. and Upper Lias Clay, …