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A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … granting to the citizens of Winchester all the liberties and customs which they had enjoyed during the time of Henry …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland
… Ancient and historical monuments in Westmorland Windermere 110 … Windermere is a large parish on the E. side of the lake and adjoining Ambleside on the S. The principal monument is … type and a frieze of modelled plaster with leaves and fruit. Some re-set and enriched woodwork bears the initials …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the Earl; 'then it was taxed for 5 hides, now for 4 hides, and the castle of Windsor is on the (other) half hide.' 1 The castle was thus a new work, and there are no grounds for assuming it to be older than the … the queen's, as if they had been given up to her and her growing family, while the king's lodging was henceforth in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wing 223. WING … village; the walls are of limestone rubble, with dressings and detail of stone and clunch. The roofs are covered with … sarcophagus decorated with heads of oxen and swags of fruit and foliage, in front, small panel with date 1552; on …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… there was a church at Winstone by the mid 11th century, 33 and in 1101 or 1102 Henry I confirmed an earlier grant by … 34 The living was first recorded as a rectory in 1304 35 and has remained one; it was united with Miserden in 1928 36 … Winstone was joined to the united benefice of Elkstone and Syde. 37 The first recorded presentation to the living …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the S. boundary of Dorchester across the South Winterborne and on to the N. slopes of the S. Dorset Ridgeway. It lies on … it was included in the parish of Winterborne Farringdon, and thereafter until the late 19th century in Winterborne … medallions within richly carved decoration of scroll-work, fruit and foliage all within enriched framing; within the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… The parish, of over 2,100 acres, lies entirely upon Chalk and rises to an altitude of 500 ft. above sea-level. The land … Winterborne brook, which flows into the parish from the W. and turns S. at the village. The area was formerly divided … inscription-tablet flanked by scrolled cheek-pieces with fruit and flower swags, and entablature and broken segmental …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and chapelry of Leverington, became a separate ecclesiastical … the area of ancient settlement, forms part of the Wisbech fruit-growing and market-gardening district. The 2-mile road called …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Hundred Elm ELM Elm, on the Norfolk border between Wisbech and Outwell, is one of the larger parishes in the Isle. It … recalls the southern part of Cambridgeshire, while the fruit-growing hamlet of Begdale, about a mile west of the … part of the parish, on silt soil, is largely given over to orchards and market-gardens; in the southwest, on the peat, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington LEVERINGTON Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a … outfall, a village site protected by the 'Roman Bank', and a landward extension into the fen-was originally the same … figure of 2,484 was inflated by the temporary presence of fruit pickers.) Between 1931 and 1947 the population of …