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Alumni Oxonienses
… college, New England, 1642 (its first graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at … 1609-10, M.A. 26 Oct., 1612, B.D. 8 July, 1619, supd. for licence to preach 29 March, 1620, D.D. 18 July, 1623, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… The steep wooded north slope of the Inchbrook valley rises to a height of over 750 ft. at Bown hill. The Nailsworth and … which followed closely the Nailsworth stream and continued to be the main route through the parish in 1972 as part of … by a new road, called Selsley Road, running from east to west through North Woodchester. 6 A railway was built in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… All Saints was created as a chapelry of Woodditton by 1336 to serve the Cambridgeshire part of the town; 11 by the 18th … added the detached parts of Newmarket All Saints to Woodditton. The new boundary ran from the west end of … Street, and Vicarage Road, WNW. along Old Station Road to the site of an old boundary post, and ENE. along Moulton …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… cultivated in three shifts in 1243 but conformed to the East Anglian pattern of inconstant names and irregular … two ploughteams but expanded by the later 13th century to 880 a. of arable, 2 divided between a larger area 'on one … farm, with four teams in 1086, was diminished by grants to Thetford and Swaffham Bulbeck priories; 4 it had 102 a. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of Upper Lias Clay, Northampton Sand and Oolite Limestone to a central ridge capped by Boulder Clay, with a maximum … I (1902), 332). This manor was granted in about 1194 to the Knights Hospitallers. The village is mentioned in the … five houses and enclosed and converted 300 acres of land to pasture, though this may not have all been at Kirby. In …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to Devizes along the top of the down. 1 The parish includes … ancient parish, extending a little over 3 miles from north to south, and from east to west about 2 miles in the north and 1 mile in the south. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Nene and Cranford Brook, on land rising S.W. from 100 ft. to 280 ft. above OD. The higher S.W. part is on Boulder Clay, … Grange, on River Gravel at 100 ft. above OD, close to the R. Nene. Air photographs show a complexity of … building (SP 97557546), in the S.E. of the parish, close to the R. Nene, on River Gravel at 110 ft. above OD. The site …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… of the river the land rises across undulating clayland to a number of rounded hills, some of which are capped by … remains around it suggest that it was once much larger. To the S. of Woodford village is a flight of strip lynchets … S. and W. of the existing hamlet, on land sloping E. to the R. Cherwell, on clays and silts at 127 m. above OD. …
A History of the County of Essex
… the number of ploughs owned by manorial tenants had fallen to seven. The 26 a. of meadow by the river accounts for the … asset to the canons. In 1292 they obtained a royal licence to sell timber at Woodford to the value of 15. 48 Another licence was obtained in 1327, 49 and in 1342, when the canons …
A History of the County of Essex
… the urban district was amalgamated with that of Wanstead, to the south, and in 1937 the borough of Wanstead and … Road. From this the parish slopes gently eastwards down to the river Roding. The soil is mainly London clay, with … parish. The wooded surroundings made the parish attractive to wealthy Londoners from at least the 15th century, and …