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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bishops-Wood - Blaby Bishop's-Wood BISHOP'S-WOOD, a liberty, in the township and parish of Brewood, … 1896 inhabitants. It is intersected by the Union canal, and comprises 1250 acres, exclusively of the chapelry, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… later remained unchanged. Bisley remained in the Crown's hands in the later 12th century when the sheriff accounted … le Eyer. 3 Half the profits, which were valued at 20 s. in 1287, belonged to Peter and the other half was shared … built following the valley bottoms. The Thames and Severn canal, opened in 1789, ran along the Frome valley on the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… called Sturmyes Court at Avenis and Stonehing at Brown's Hill. 60 The lands produced a rental of £35 in 1689, 61 … 65 Thomas Butler (d. 1688), son of John Butler of Rookwood's Farm, gave a rent-charge of £1 10 s.; £1 was for bread for … by will dated 1798 gave 2 shares in the Stroudwater canal, the dividends to be divided between Bisley and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the manor of Bisley. 18 In 1309 Tibbald de Verdun's portion of the manor included 50 a. of arable, ½ a. of … 10 ploughs, and another 23 men owing a total rent of 44 s. and two sesters of honey; 11 burgages in Gloucester owned … Mill on a site that came to be bounded on the south by the canal and on the north by the Stroud-Cirencester road; 35 its …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the Inferior Oolite which is overlaid by a band of fuller's earth, while the high ground is formed by the Great Oolite, … estate at Woodchester, 15 and there was woodland worth 20 s. on Bisley manor in 1086. 16 In 1575 280 a. of woodland … in the early 13th century. 54 The Thames and Severn canal, opened fully in 1789 and abandoned finally in 1933, 55 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Marlborough, whose successors also rented Christ Church's estate, and thus became effective lords of the whole … held of William FitzOsbern, earl of Hereford. 3 FitzOsbern's right was not mentioned later, and the overlordship descended with d'Ivri's lands presumably to Reynold of St Valery (d. 1163), passing …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… hundred of Coleridge, Stanborough and Coleridge, and S. divisions of Devon, 5 miles (W. by N.) from Dartmouth; … The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 15. 8. 9.; net income, 122; patron, Sir H. P. … about 35,000lb. of yarn weekly. The Leeds and Liverpool canal passes the town, and affords communication with the …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… Chaigley 2,015. A detached part of Aighton called Lennox's Farm was in 1883 transferred to Dutton, within which … as narrated below. To the ancient 'fifteenth' 38 s. was contributed, when the hundred in all paid 37 1 s. 7 d., 9 and to the county lay a proportionate sum. The …
Old and New London
… EscapesQueen Elizabeth at Lord Herbert's MarriageOld Blackfriars BridgeJohnson and MylneLaying of … Phillips and his WorksPainters in BlackfriarsThe King's Printing Office Printing House SquareThe Times and its HistoryWalter's EnterpriseWar with the DispatchThe gigantic Swindling …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… became the parish was almost certainly part of the king's large estate called Calne, 3 and it was part of the land of … three principal estates of Calstone, 32 and in 1728 George Duckett, the lord of Calstone and Calstone Wellington manors, … Ibid. 727/3/27; Bowood Mun., Lab 3/3/4, survey of Geo. Duckett's lands; ibid. survey of tithable lands, 1728; ibid. …