Search
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… in the eleventh or twelfth century, between the Scots and the Danes, at Druimleah, near Bonar-Bridge, whence the … It is an extensive parish, in length about forty miles, and six miles in average breadth, and contains about 150,000 acres. The general appearance of …
Old and New London
… DeathTreasures in Barber-Surgeons' Hall: its Plate Stolen and RecoveredAnother kind of Recovery thereLambe, the … and historical church lies a great benefactor to London antiquaries, the learned and laborious John Speed, the great … clever, with ribaldry and malice, so that for long Curll's historians, sleeping two in a bed, in Grub Street garrets, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Ancient and historical monuments in the City of London Cripplegate … Without consists of the parishes of St. Giles Cripplegate and St. Bartholomew Moor Lane. The church of St. Giles … Church of St. Giles Cripplegate stands on the S. side and at the W. end of Fore Street. It is a medival building; …
A Survey of London
… warde. The next Warde is called of Cripplesgate, and consisteth of diuerse streetes and lanes, lying as well without the Gate and Wall of the Cittie, as within: first within the Wall on …
Survey of London Monograph
… the two best endowed with natural beauty are Highgate and Hampstead, the sister heights which, almost within the … by long stretches of land still unattacked by the builder, and which, although he creeps up insidiously, he will never … had it bricked up, much to the consternation of local antiquaries." There are references in other books to the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… CROWFIELD, a chapelry, in the parish of Coddenham, union and hundred of Bosmere and Claydon, E. division of Suffolk, 6 miles (E. N. E.) from … on the summit of an extensive basin of chalk. By some antiquaries it has been identified with the Noviomagus of …
The Environs of London
… The name of this place in Doomsday, is called Croindone, and is frequently so spelt in records of a later date: I can … with regard to its etymology. Situation, boundaries, and extent. Soil. Croydon is a market town, situated ten … 4. Of the fairs, the two last only are now held. Some antiquaries are of opinion, that Croydon was the ancient …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Croydon Introduction and Croydon Palace CROYDON Croindeine (xi cent.); Crondon … 9,012 acres lying 10 miles south of London on the London and Brighton road. The neighbourhood of Croydon is very rich in prehistoric and early historic remains. On Croham Hurst and on Shirley …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Culross - Saint Cyrus Culross CULROSS, a royal burgh and a parish, in the county of Perth, 7 miles (W.) from Dunfermline, and 21 (W. N. W.) from Edinburgh; containing, with the … from the remains of the Roman station Coria, which some antiquaries have identified with the immediate vicinity. The …
Cuxham
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… boundary. The village contracted in the late Middle Ages, and remains small despite some modern house-building. Until … parish was dominated by Merton College, Oxford (as lord and major landowner), by a few leading tenant farmers, and by the rector. The latter was almost invariably a current …