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Survey of London
… the south to within a short distance of St. Chad's Place and on the north to the parish boundary along Pentonville … in 1825, flowed along the western side of Pancras Road and then eastward along the south side of the common, … for the stories of a battle here between the Romans and the Britons. The only Roman find discovered near Battle …
A History of the County of Somerset
… on the four estates of Bawdrip, Bradney, Crandon, and Crook in 1086. 15 Bawdrip, the largest, had a small demesne arable farm for 1 ploughteam and the tenants, numbering 21, had 5 teams for a similar area. There were 100 a. of meadow and 40 a. of pasture. Bradney had 1 team for its 3-virgate …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Bawdrip Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES. BAWDRIP was held by Renewald from Walter … Cary until the 16th century or later. 59 During the 17th and 18th centuries 4 s. 8 d., half collected from Bradney …
A History of the County of Essex
… of Brittany. Before the Conquest it had been held by Lewin and Etsi as a manor and as 1½ hide. 27 Most of this Domesday estate later became … result of the attainder of Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and that the tenant in demesne had subsequently held directly …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The village of Great Beckermet lies partly in this parish, and partly in that of Beckermet St. John, 3 miles south from … on the north bank of the Calder, adjoining the ocean, and contains the sequestered ruins of Calder Abbey, described … The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, 87; patron and impropriator, H. Gaitskell, Esq. The parochial church …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke) BENSON The large and thriving village of Benson - by far the most populous … the London road, with a relatively broad range of trades and a diverse social structure. Until the 20th century it … bordered until 1863 by its large open fields, and governed by the usual rural institutions of manor and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Badgeworth, Upper division of the hundred of Dudstone and King's Barton, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 4 … of Settle, W. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York; containing 3535 inhabitants, … it contains some fine pasture, and there are extensive dairies, from which is produced the celebrated Berkeley …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… rolling heathland, over Bagshot Beds, lying between 50 ft. and 200 ft. above O.D., across which the river Frome cuts … S.E. The middle part is largely occupied by Reading Beds and London Clay which give rise to extensive woodland. The N. … parish is on Chalk rising to just over 300 ft. above O.D. and in places cut into by dry valleys draining into the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 3885 a. 2 r., of which about 1600 acres are arable, and 206 wood; and surrounds Great Berkhampstead: the village is situated in … is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 21. 1. 3., and in the patronage of the Duchy of Cornwall: the tithes …
Berrick Salome
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… Berrick Salome BERRICK SALOME The small and relatively scattered village of Berrick Salome occupies … ground a mile or so north of Benson, its clunch-rubble and timber-framed buildings strung loosely along the Newington road and a few intersecting lanes amidst some small-scale modern …