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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… OD, the land rises gently across extensive gravel terraces and then more steeply over outcrops of Upper Lias Clay to a flat-topped ridge of sand and limestone at around 100 m. above OD. Beyond, the land … cut into Upper Lias Clay. A large number of prehistoric and Roman settlements have been recorded by both air …
A History of the County of Essex
… CHURCH The minster church at Colne, served by two priests and a deacon c. 1040, 62 was presumably at Earls Colne. … granted the church to Colne priory at its foun- dation, and the priory appropriated the rectory before 1254, … James I presented by lapse. 64 Thomas Carwardine in 1786 and his son John Bryan in 1824, son-in-law and son of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… on Earls Colne manor probably increased between 1066 and 1086, as the number of demesne ploughs rose from 3 to 5, and of tenants' ploughs from 3 to four. The livestock, some … the manor, increased, from 39 cattle, 120 sheep, 60 swine, and 60 goats in 1066 to 45 cattle, 160 sheep, 80 swine, and …
A History of the County of Essex
… Earls Colne Grammer school, which had been endowed c. 1519 and, after sev- eral vicissitudes, closed in 1884, was … the eight governors were appointed by the County Council, and 25 per cent of the pupils came from elementary schools. … the sale of the school's estates under a Scheme of 1926, and by gifts totalling £2,000 from Reuben Hunt. Numbers rose …
A History of the County of Essex
… the four Colne parishes, was the site of a medieval market and a 19th-century engineering works. It lies c. 9 miles ( c. 15 km.) west of Colchester and immedi- ately east of Halstead on the river Colne, from … rope were stolen in 1576, but many houses had their own wells. 54 In 1750 the overseers paid for carting water, …
A History of the County of Essex
… Earls Colne` Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES Ealdor- man Aelfgar between 946 and 951 devised land at Colne to his daughter Aelfflaed who …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… (the transference of ideas, beliefs, traditions, and sometimes artefacts by contact between societies), … from the highest hill tops, 85 with thick, wet alder carr and willow on the flood plains and in the river valleys and broad leaved species, especially …
A History of the County of Somerset
… INTRODUCTORY THE story of the arrival of man in Somerset, and of the gradual evolution of culture during untold ages, … by the discoveries at Freshford on the Avon, near Bath, and just above low-water mark at St. Audries, where the … found only in one cave in Somerset, in Wookey Hole near Wells, explored in 185969, by Williamson, Willett, Parker, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by representatives of the eastern or Peterborough culture, and that indeed only shortly in advance of the coming of the … intact bowls of its distinctive pottery, soapy in texture and often highly decorated, from the Thames at Mongewell, two … are now in the collection of Mr. G. W. Smith of Reading, 1 and the third in the British Museum, while other imperfect …
A History of the County of Oxford
… groups previously unknown or unrecognized were classified and placed in their correct chronological order. Subsequent … notably at All Cannings Cross, Wilts., at Peterborough, and at Park Brow, Sussex, facilitated the study of older … nearest parallel is a small sherd from Warham Camp, near Wells, Norfolk, 7 found along with other sherds bearing …