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A History of the County of York East Riding
… occupies a similar situation in the west of the parish, and surviving wells near both settlements suggest that a supply of water … 3 but no later reference to it has been found and its site is not known. The irregularly-shaped parish …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the surface, analogous in its formation to Sussex marble, and abounding with the same fossils, blended with a minute … one in each street; but a supply is now obtained from wells, which, from the chalky nature of the substratum, are … a priory of Benedictine monks, as a cell to the abbey at Bath; the revenue, at the Dissolution, was 37. 4. 9. The …
A History of the County of Stafford
… north of Penkridge. It is bounded on the east by the Penk, and part of the northern boundary is formed by the Pothooks … the Penk at the northeastern extremity of the parish, and by a tributary of the brook. The ground slopes from 375 … Penk. The soil is stiff loam, the subsoil marl with sand and gravel. 1 Part of Penkridge was added to the civil parish …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… 25 acres on a spur between the valleys of the R. Frome and a tributary, 2 miles S.W. of the village. The N. and E. sides are defined by a bank with an outer ditch almost … ploughing; the relationship between the ends of the bank and the scarps to S. and W. is not clear. A degraded bank …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… (Dors.), but its components were united by geography and proximity to each other rather than by tenure. The hundred would have been more regular and even more compact but for the omission from it of Semley and Fonthill Bishop which intrude into it. Fonthill Bishop, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… DURHAM, a city, the capital of the county of Durham, and the head of a union, 67 miles (E. S. E.) from Carlisle, … 87 (N. E.) from Lancaster, 67 (N. W. by W.) from York, and 259 (N. W.) from London; containing 14,151 inhabitants. … is probably derived from the Saxon words, Dun, a hill, and Holme, a river island; being descriptive of its situation …
A History of the County of Durham
… Durham Churches and advowsons CHURCHES The church of ST. NICHOLAS stands on … in 18578. It consists of a short chancel, nave with north and south aisles, and tower at the west end of the south aisle forming the …
A History of the County of Durham
… 129 ft. 5 in. long internally from north to south and 34 ft. 2 in. wide, Aisled Quire of five bays, North and South Transepts, each of four bays in length, with … aisle, Central Tower, Nave of eight bays, with North and South Aisles terminating at the west with Towers …
A History of the County of Durham
… on the south side of the church around the cloister and follow the usual arrangement of the Benedictine plan, with the chapter house in the east range and the frater on the south. The dorter, too, was originally … fact that the river forms the western boundary of the site and affords special convenience for drainage, and also …
Survey of London
… of the house. The beautiful "Cathedral of the Waters" and the bishop's palace at Salisbury are sufficient evidence that he was a great builder and it is more than probable that Durham Place owed its … used for the ceremony of the creation of Knights of the Bath. 291 In 1619 Sir Thomas Wilson wrote that the …