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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… to 120 ft. along the Frome. The S. half is all on Bagshot Beds and Plateau Gravel and is partly heathland while the N. … Book as two parcels, the eastern apparently held by Cerne Abbey and the western by William Belet, whose family retained … ridge of valley gravel with outcropping Bagshot Beds which slopes gently from S.W. to N.E. at about 130 ft. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… long rear courtyard for 60 horses. By the 1820s there were beds for c. 50 guests and the stables, for 80 horses, were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… estates in north Berkshire, was an official of Eynsham abbey, and may have been engaged in the wool trade. 84 The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… S.P. Dom. 1644, 459, 507, 528. Letter Bks. of Sir S. Luke (Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. xlii), 52-3, 360; W. Dugdale's Life, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Nearly half a mile to the south, are the remains of Bindon Abbey, founded in 1172, by Robert de Newburgh and Matilda his …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… slopes from Chalk in the S.W., through areas on Reading Beds and London Clay, well-wooded to the E. around … E. of Wool, was apparently completely removed when Bindon Abbey was transferred here in 1172 from its original site at … now only a farm. The parish church, the ruins of Bindon Abbey and the adjacent house are the principal monuments. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… have been made from the time of the foundation of Tintern Abbey. 17 No dole was made after 1546 when John Conway, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in the foundation grant by Walter de Clare to Tintern Abbey in 1131. 91 Following a dispute with Llanthony Priory, … tithes of the demesne of Alvington, and that in return the abbey should serve the chapel of Alvington. 92 The abbey was licensed to appropriate the church of Woolaston …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… century, shortly before the manor was granted to Tintern Abbey, there was considerable demesne at Aluredston. Three … new assarts. 10 Shortly before the Dissolution the Tintern Abbey granges of Woolaston, Madgett, and Brockweir and the … was worth about three times as much as any other Tintern Abbey grange. 11 The only woodland and meadow in the parish …