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A History of the County of Gloucester
… a small compact parish of 850 a., bounded by a Roman road on the north-east, an old road from Tetbury on the north-west, and the old Westonbirt-Leighterton road … Road, used by the Romans between the Foss Way and the Severn, 23 was probably the most important ancient route. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (E. S. E.) from Whitwell. This parish, which is bounded on the north and west by the navigable river Derwent, … containing, with Stormore, 8 inhabitants. It lies on the north side of the river Avon, and comprises, including … of Elstub and Everley, locally in the hundred of Bradford, Westbury and N. divisions, and Trowbridge and Bradford …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from Beccles; containing 176 inhabitants. It is bounded on the northeast by the river Waveney, and comprises by … 391 inhabitants, and comprising 1238 acres. It is bounded on the north-west by the river Severn; the Gloucester and Berkeley and the Stroud canals …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Ely, was licensed to live at Netherhills in Frampton on Severn. 97 Ely was later said to live in the glebe house, 98 … 1884-1918, spanned an unusually long period, each living on the estate that he had acquired in the parish. 15 There …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The fact that West field lay near the middle of the parish on the northern boundary 85 suggests that the open-field land … early times lay all in the south-east half of the parish, on the higher ground. In 1638 West field and Nether field … were also a dozen families supported by work on the River Severn 43 and, presumably, the canals. A sailor was among the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and stretches long and narrow to within a few yards of the Severn in the north-west. The name of the parish has been … adopted as the official name. 2 Meanwhile the settlement on the main road had come to be known usually as Whitminster … detached part of the parish was transferred to Frampton on Severn and a similar detached part of Moreton Valence was …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of Hereford 78 until the late 14th century: it was settled on Humphrey de Bohun and his wife Elizabeth in 1302, 79 and … In 1474 Edward IV included the manor among those settled on the queen; 89 Richard III's undertaking in 1483 to grant … Whitminster House and farmed 167 a. partly in Frampton on Severn. 20 Whitminster House is a three-story building mainly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a deep rich loam in the centre of the vale to a light sand on the sides and acclivities of the hills by which it is … a rich appearance to the vale: Eslington House, seated on the bank of the river, is the residence of the Hon. Henry … the village into the river Perry, which falls into the Severn near Shrewsbury. The grant of a weekly market and an …
A History of the County of Northampton
… some 2,321 acres 37 in the extreme south of Cleley hundred on the north bank of the Great Ouse, which here forms the … by the river from Thornton and Beachampton (Bucks.) on the south, and is bounded on the west by Leckhampstead … family) and his wife Monica to establish a rest home at Westbury-on-Trym, obtained the approval of the Charity …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… settled Wicken in 1382, from his widow Joan's death, on his surviving daughter Margaret and her husband Sir John … in 1402-3. Margaret (d. 1414) settled Wicken c. 1407 on the marriage of that son John's son John Peyton to Grace … death in 1484 the elder Thomas had settled Wicken in 1476 on the marriage of his son's son, another Thomas (d. s.p. …