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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 1763 inhabitants. This place belonged to the Saxon earl Warbald and his countess Tedburga, the site of … in Hertfordshire: the appellation is derived from the Saxon words cealt, cylt, or chilt, signifying chalk, of which …
A History of the County of Sussex
… by country which was covered with wood or heath in Saxon times. 90 The place names Wantley and Woolfly, both …
Henley and the Chilterns
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… and trade for many centuries. In the later Anglo-Saxon period the Henley area belonged to the large royal … Greys already had an open character in the Anglo-Saxon period; 1 presumably that included the heaths and … 13 Presumably the road continued in use during the Anglo-Saxon period, linking the royal centre at Benson and the …
Henley: Boundaries, Landscape and Population
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… almost certainly derived from those of the late Anglo-Saxon and early medieval estates which were crystallising in …
Henley: Communications
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… The Thames was a major transport route by the late Anglo-Saxon period, 11 and in the early 13th century there still …
Henley: Henley and Fillets Manors
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… of woodland. 13 Its name probably derived from an Anglo-Saxon word for hayfield, referring presumably to meadows on …
Henley: Origin and Development of the Town
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… 3 No other archaeological evidence of Roman or early Anglo-Saxon occupation has yet been found. By the 8th century … to Medieval Borough', in D. Hooke and T. R. Slater, Anglo-Saxon Wolverhampton: The Town and its Monastery (1986), 35. …
Henley: Outlying Estates and Country Houses
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… was assessed at 5 hides, the typical holding of an Anglo-Saxon thegn. 5 The estate lay west of the later town around …
Henley: Outlying Farms and Agriculture
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… of the town, similarly implies communal farming by Anglo-Saxon peasant farmers or ceorls. 12 Given this, the creation …