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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the tithes of Beesby have been commuted for 221. 17. 7., and there are nearly 44 acres of glebe. Beesby-in-the Marsh … a. 2 r. 20 p., of which 627 acres are arable, 518 meadow and pasture, and 26 woodland and plantations: the surface is slightly …
A History of the County of York
… p. 2. Anglian York, p. 3. The School of York, p. 6. Danish and Viking York, p. 9. The Rule of the Earls, p. 13. The … a time when many of the legions had left their traditional stations. 8 York is mentioned again in the Ravenna … 75 This last term, with its distinctly military and police connotations, probably denotes divisions approximating …
A Dictionary of London
… Alley, Labour-In-Vain Hill West out of Labour-in-Vain Hill and south to Thames Street, in Queenhithe Ward (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). In O. and M. the southern portion is called Brook's Yard. See Brook …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… BELLASIS, a township, in the parish of Stannington, union and W. division of Castle ward, S. division of … low situation, sheltered with rising ground to the north, and has the Blyth before it, the winding waters of which are made deep and slow by the wears of Stannington mill. Bellasize …
A Dictionary of London
… 1666-O.S. 1880). "St. Benet's Hill" or "Paul's Wharf Hill" and "St. Benet's, Paul's Wharf" (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 229 and maps). "St. Benet's Lane," 1341 (Cal. Close R. Ed. III. … 1890 it extended further north to Knightrider Street, and in Strype's time as far as St. Paul's Churchyard. The …
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 … developed into one of Oxfordshire's two main military air stations. The extended airfield now occupies much of the … at the Crown) were sometimes raucous affairs, provoking police intervention in 1890. As a dividing rather than …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… its extensive reserves of coal, ironstone, limestone, and clay were exploited, at times intensively as economic … quickened in the neighbouring parishes of Broseley and Madeley. Benthall, however, never rivalled Broseley as an industrial and market centre and was in effect merely an adjunct to it. …
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, … railway between those towns, nearly equidistant from the stations of Manningtree and Ipswich. The living is a …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Bentley liberty and parish Bentley liberty and parish Bintungom (vii cent.); Beonaet, Beonetlet (x … on the borders of Surrey, south of the parish of Crondall and north of Binsted, from which it is separated by the River …
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 … of antiquity are various and interesting. The Roman stations were, Spin, at the present village of Speen; that …