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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester The borough BOROUGH In spite of the tradition that the merchant gild of Winchester was … is not easy to form any clear idea as to the actual early constitution of the borough. The light on its existence that … sauver et sustener,' 137 conclusively link the civic constitution of Winchester with that of the communities of …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor castle History THE CASTLE The authentic history of Windsor Castle cannot be carried back beyond the 11th century. The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor … 1191 438; Walter Archbishop of Rouen, 11913 439; Hubert de Burgh, 1200 440; John Fitz Hugh, 1201 441; Robert de Vipont, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 80 SW, ST 80 SE, SY 89 NW) The parish lies in the valley of the Winterborne brook and has an area of 3,436 acres, entirely on Chalk. Until 1933 Milton Abbas parish included the W. part of Whitechurch village, and the parish church thus stood …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Flasby WINTERBURN, with Flasby, a township, in the parish of Gargrave, union of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and … living is a discharged vicarage, united in 1729 to that of Burgh-in-the-Marsh, and valued in the king's books at 8; the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Chapeiry of Parson Drove CHAPELRY OF PARSON DROVE Parson Drove, originally a township and chapelry of Leverington, became a separate ecclesiastical district …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Leverington is a large parish and village on the northwest of Wisbech. 1 The lay-out-a frontage upon the Ouse (later the … originally the same as in the other Marshland villages of the Isle, but in Leverington has been considerably modified. In the first place, the fen portion of the ancient parish, containing Parson Drove (q.v.), has …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were collectively known as … Together they stretch about 4 miles along the old course of the Nene, and are locally considered, probably with truth, … a very large village community. In 1931 the population of the four constituent parishes was just under 5,000, though …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Thorney THORNEY This large parish 1 is of a different type from the others in Wisbech hundred. Its nucleus is an island of gravel, not very perceptible except from the west, but … the orchards and market gardens which are such a feature of the Wisbech area are largely absent, 2 potatoes, cereals, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech St. Mary WISBECH ST. MARY Wisbech St. Mary, one of the larger parishes of the Isle, covers an area of some 10,000 acres 1 on the left (north-west) bank of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Charters of incorporation CHARTERS OF INCORPORATION Borough of Wisbech … burgesses. Wisbech thus enjoyed a reasonably democratic constitution before 1835, and there is little evidence of … of the charities was transferred to trustees. 82 (3) The constitution was normalized by the transformation of the town …