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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wyndcaleton, and derived that name from its situation on the windings of the river Cale, by which it is bounded on the west. It was the scene of many sanguinary conflicts … Belgae between Anton, or the Southampton river, and the Severn, and placed garrisons in them, as a defence from the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… remainder meadow and pasture; the soil is fertile, resting on gravel. The living is annexed to the vicarage of … 1840, is a handsome structure in the later English style. On Fernham down are several barrows, in one of which … Andrew), a parish, in the union and hundred of Bradford, Westbury and N. divisions, and Trowbridge and Bradford …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from Northwich; containing 321 inhabitants. It is situated on the banks of the Weever, over which is a stone bridge; and … the Warburtons, was purchased, with the estate, in 1806, on the death of Richard, Lord Penrhyn (who had obtained it in … chapelry, in the parish, union, and hundred of Bradford, Westbury and N. divisions, and Trowbridge and Bradford …
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
… Andrew), a parish, in the union of Chepstow, hundred of Westbury, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 5 miles … 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 …
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. … 1629, M.A. 26 June, 1632; perhaps rector of Oldbury-on-Severn, co. Worcester, 1657. See Foster's Index Eccl. [ 35] … M.A. from St. John's Coll., Cambridge, 1736; vicar of Westbury 1730, and of Norton Bavant, Wilts, 1736, until his …
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 … the Hall, now a farmhouse. Divine service is performed on Sunday afternoon in a small chapel subordinate to the … a hamlet, in the parish of Powick, union of Upton-upon-Severn, Lower division of the hundred of Pershore, Upton and …