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Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Cotswolds to Thames
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… William Morris (d. 1896). Ironically part of Morris's legacy was to deprive the hamlet of the rural seclusion and … Thames have not always been universally admired: Morris's friend, the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, … Peacocks in Filkins (the latter remodelled by one of the Bassett family in 1759), or Lockey House and Ansells Farm in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of land, comprising the 30 acres mentioned in Dugdale's Warwickshire as the Park, is the property of Thos. Hutton, … and the head of a union, in the hundred of Offlow South, S. division of the county of Stafford, situated about 6 miles … of Roger de Somery. In the 21st of Edward I. one Richard Bassett was lord of the manor, which the family of Freebody …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Chesham, Ivinghoe, Newport-Pagnell, Olney, Prince's-Risborough, Fenny-Stratford, StonyStratford, Wendover, and … its vicinity; and coins have also been found near Prince's-Risborough and Ellesborough. Above the village of Medmenham … books at 13. 13. 4., and in the gift of the Baroness Bassett: the tithes have been commuted for 190; there is a …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Trent called Andresey, an Old English name meaning 'Andrew's isle', and to have dwelt there as an anchoress. She … record of Modwen, conflated his subject with both Modwen's legend at Burton and that of Darerca, a southern Scottish … in Burton was officially suppressed in 1538. Sir William Bassett of Meynell Langley (Derb.), possibly acting on orders …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of them for workers at the Bass brewery. After the brewery's Meadow Park sports and social club on the east side of … park, in Horninglow, where it remained in 2000 as the town's only semi-professional association football club. 1 Skating … 13 Nov. 1886, p. 7. Burton Libr., D. 23/2/10/3, John Bassett to town hall cttee. 3 Dec. 1894 and 19 Feb. 1895; …
Alumni Oxonienses
… abbot of Newenham, Devon. See Fasti, i. 71; & O.H.S. i. 134, 142. Cable, John B.A. from Jesus Coll, Cambridge, … 1701 ( Cat. Grads.). Callis, Abel s. Robert, of Letcomb Bassett, Berks, sacerd. St. Mary Hall, matric. 4 April, 1623, … 1581, aged 19; B.A. 19 Feb., 1584-5, rector of Letcombe Bassett, Berks, 1589, until his death, buried there 5 Dec., …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wilts, 30 miles (N. N. W.) from Salisbury, and 87 (W. by S.) from London, on the road to Bath and Bristol; comprising … the living of BerwickBasset annexed, valued in the king's books at 8. 5.; net income, 769; patron, the Bishop of … king's books at 39. 16. 10., and in the patronage of Lady Bassett: the tithes have been commuted for 900, and the glebe …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… met anywhere but at Calne. The early boundary of the king's estate was not recited, its hidage was not assessed, 3 and … became Blackland, Calstone Wellington, Cherhill, Compton Bassett, Yatesbury, and perhaps Heddington parishes, was part … of Calne hundred in the Middle Ages. On the east Berwick Bassett, which was not mentioned in Domesday Book and came to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… called Eastmead Street). They remained those of the church's estate, from the 1220s held by the treasurer of Salisbury … apparently in the early 19th century. Beside the Wootton Bassett road north-east of the town the Bricklayers Arms, … landscaped setting as married quarters for R.A.F. Compton Bassett in the mid 20th century; c. 40 other houses were …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the parish of Calne church was conterminous with the king's estate called Calne, which, with varying degrees of … have included smaller settlements near Calne, and Berwick Bassett, Beversbrook, Calstone (including what became Blackland), Cherhill, Compton Bassett, Heddington, and Yatesbury. 47 To the west Studley …