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A History of the County of Somerset
… lay within the ancient parish, Bridgwater, Bower, Hamp, and Horsey, together measured 8½ hides. Bridgwater manor, the … comprised 7 ploughlands. Three virgates were in demesne and the remainder was worked with 5 teams. Hamp was about half the size of Horsey and was shared equally between lord and tenants. Bower gelded …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… corner of Leicestershire bordering upon Northamptonshire and Rutland, the ancient parish of Bringhurst, which is 3,612 … correspond to the main settlements of Bringhurst, Drayton, and Great Easton. The River Welland forms the southern boundary and its tributary, the Eye Brook, the eastern boundary of …
History Theses 1901-1970
… Dann. London M.A. 1911. The relations between Henry VII and Wales. W.T. Williams. Wales M.A. 1914. The relations of Henry VII with Scotland and Ireland (148597), illustrated from episodes in the life … Lord Lisle, 153340. J. Leese. Manchester M.A. 1929. Life and works of Edmund Dudley. Dorothy M. Brodie. Cambridge …
Broadwell Parish: Holwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… parish, around 2 miles (4.5 km) south-west of Burford and 8 miles (13 km) west of Witney. Throughout its history it has been a small agricultural community, and during the 19th and earlier 20th centuries it became an estate village for …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… is a small rural parish 18 km NNW of Gloucester and 5 km south-east of Ledbury (Herefs.). Situated at the … ancient parish was bordered by Herefordshire to the north and west and Worcestershire to the east. Before … and used by the churchwardens by the 1630s also to fund apprenticeships of children to local farmers and occasional …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… probably means 'woodland clearing of the fort guardian', and much of Broseley remained wooded in the Middle Ages. 12 … For 350 years from the late 16th century coal, ironstone, and clay were successively exploited in the riverside parish, and Broseley grew rapidly from an agricultural village with …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the same name, has interlocking boundaries with Pitcombe and Shepton Montague to the west and south 92 and dependent chapelries of Brewham to the east and Pitcombe …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bruton (St. Mary) BRUTON ( St. Mary), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wincanton, hundred of Bruton, E. division of Somerset, 12 miles (S. E.) from Wells, and 110 (W. by S.) from London; comprising, with the chapelry of Wyke-Champflower, the tything of Redlynch, and part of Discove, 2074 inhabitants, of whom 1885 are in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… BUILTH, or LLANVAIR-YN-MUALLT, a market-town and parish, the head of a union, and anciently a borough, in the hundred of Builth, county of … the expenses of the school, afford any thing for the apprenticing of children, though a few have been put out at …