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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… rape of Pevensey, E. division of Sussex, 2 miles (S. E.) from Uckfield; containing 1434 inhabitants. It … mould. Here are quarries of sandstone; and iron-works were formerly carried on. The living is a discharged vicarage, … though she was subsequently defeated and lost her life, or, as some say, took poison. At what time the castle was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Frampton 42 FRAMPTON (D.d.) (O.S. 6 in. ( a)XXXIX, N.E. ( b)XXXIX, S.E. (c)XL, N.W. (d)XL, … Frampton is a parish and village 5 m. N.W. of Dorchester. The church and the bridge over the Frome are the principal monuments. There was formerly a Cell here of the Benedictine abbey of S. Etienne …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… may either survive from a 12thcentury church at Frampton or have been brought from elsewhere. The advowson of the … 73 After the death of Anne Wicks the advowson was held by S. W. Silver in 1847 74 and 1879, 75 and by the Revd. E. W. … the restorations the chancel, of which the east wall had formerly been flush with those of the chapels, 32 was doubled …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… known for its spacious village green, called Rosamund's Green after Henry II's mistress, Rosamund Clifford, a … river foreshore, was 2,365 a., 2 including 1 a. that was formerly a detached part of Wheatenhurst and was added to … Clifford made a grant of a place for making six putchers or fish-traps near Buckpool, 10 and a fishery in the Severn …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Freebridge Hundred and Half FREEBRIDGE HUNDRED AND HALF. In the grand survey, or Domesday book, made by King William I. it is wrote … is doubtful, probably it was what is now called St. German's Bridge. The river was (we may conclude) much narrower …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… hundred, and that of Frenge in the hundred of Docking, (or Smethden.) Eustachius was also lord of Witchingham, in the … the moiety of a salt-pit, &c. and was valued at 40 s. per ann. Besides this, six freemen held of him one … the Earl Warren, which John de Thorp, and Alice his wife, formerly held; the heirs of John de Milham were his 2 …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… is partly British, and partly Saxon, being derived from Ab or Av, which signifies, and is the name of a river in Wales, and the Saxon Ton or Tun, a … that name, was lord of one. This was held in King Edward's time by Aba, under Stigand the Archbishop, for a manor, and …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… of Canterbury) had the soc. The whole was valued at 40 s. per ann. and was 2 leucas long and one broad, and paid 2 … Spelman observes, that the town is seated in an angle, or nook of land between two rivers, (called by him the Isis … then said) of Robert de Tateshale, which John de Tateshale formerly held; and soon after in 1340, Robert Earl of …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… BAWSEY and GLOSTHORP Were two distinct villiages at the survey, called Gloresthorp and Bouseda, or Boweseia; the first was the capital manor, and the other … to it, with 40 acres of land, &c. and was valued at 55 s. per ann.; there belongs to it one beruite, as a manor, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Called in Domesday book, Acre, from its site by a river or running water, was the lordship of Toche, a Saxon thane, in King Edward's time, and granted at the conquest by King William I. to … of the land of Theobald; in Marham, 2 parts of the demean formerly Herbert de Bexwell's, and a moiety of the tithe of …