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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Avening Introduction AVENING The ancient parish of Avening, two miles north of Tetbury, … slopes. Strata of the Great Oolite are found on the higher ground which is formed principally by Forest Marble. 9 The …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… OTHER ESTATES. An estate at Avening formerly belonging to the Saxon thegn Brictric was held by the Crown in 1086, 63 and by 1135 had been granted to the convent of Holy Trinity at Caen in Normandy 64 which also held Minchinhampton. The manor of AVENING descended with Minchinhampton until 1813 65 when …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Avening Nonconformity NONCONFORMITY. Early nonconformity in the parish was based on meeting-houses at Nailsworth. 60 … chapel at Avening which closed c. 1720 but no record of it has survived. 61 A Baptist chapel was built in Avening … 1743, and 1772, and in 1821 two houses and a piece of ground for openair meetings were licensed by unidentified …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Awre AWRE The parish of Awre 85 lies 16 km. south-west of Gloucester … lower land of the parish is bounded by an area of higher ground formed of the Old Red Sandstone: 95 in the north and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Christopher) AYLESBEAR ( St. Christopher), a parish, in the union of St. Thomas, hundred of East Budleigh, Woodbury and S. … and has one principal street, on whose north side the ground rises abruptly to an elevation of 100 feet. A …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… 6 in. xxviii. S.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Mary, stands near the middle of the town, and is built of squared rubble, … is of three stages, and has diagonal buttresses above the ground stage, a N.E. stair-turret, an embattled parapet, with …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… (O.S. 6 in. XLV, N.W.) Aylton is a small parish 3 m. W. of Ledbury. The church is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical (1). … partitions and exposed ceiling-beams and joists to the ground-floor rooms. There is one original door of moulded …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… S.W., (e)IX, N.E.) Aymestrey is a large parish 6 m. N.W. of Leominster. The church of Aymestrey and the chapel of Leinthall Earls … the middle of the 14th century. In the E. wall of the ground stage is a 15th-century doorway with moulded jambs and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Aynho 5 AYNHO (OS 1:10000 a SP 43 SE, b SP 53 SW) The large, rectangular parish occupies 930 hectares of land in the extreme S.W. of the county and is bounded by … Ridge-and-furrow of the common fields exists on the ground or can be traced on air photographs over most of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Ayr - Ayton Ayr AYR, a sea-port, burgh, and market-town, in the district of Kyle, county of Ayr, of which it is the capital, 77 miles … persons connected with the proceedings, arranged on the ground floor; and the upper story, to which is an ascent by a …