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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Horncastle; containing, in 1841, 307 inhabitants. … The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 13; net income, 70; patron and appropriator, the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of the parish; remains of the agger were found near Terry's Cross in the south-west corner. 10 The chief east-west road … Blackstone towards High Cross in Albourne. 12 Blackstone bridge, between Blackstone and High Cross, 13 was mentioned … east led from Blackstone by way of Cuckolds Green to Terry's Cross, mentioned in 1647. 16 In 1628 it was called the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… of both places. 59 In 1704 lands were bought at Mock bridge in Henfield. 60 The clear annual income to each parish in the 1780s was £4 2 s. 9½ d. 61 In 1808 the land was sold and the money invested. The income was distributed in sums of between 2 s. 6 d. and 6 s. in 1837, 62 and in the 1860s £20 4 s. 4 d. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… XVI. 5). The sheltered position and fertile soil on the S. side of the street gave rise in the 19th century to a … until 1735 when the Earl of Westmorland replaced it by a bridge, designed by George Portwood of Stamford, on the site … Abbey, the manor house having been the W. tenement on the S. side of the street. Sir Guy Wolston gained possession of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… developed at a gate into the royal park. The town's curving west boundary perhaps represents the line of the … to the original building plots. 94 Quitrents rose from 36 s. 5 d. in 1230 to 43 s. in the 1260s, c. 45 s. in 1279, and … at its junction with Brown's Lane by a 'great wooden bridge', maintained by the corporation. 59 The bridge may …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in part by other evidence, but Woodstock was one of Henry's principal residences before and after his association with … of trade to the vicinity of the court, and Henry's motives probably included a desire for rents and tolls as … it in 1827 the corporation refused to contribute. 41 The bridge at the Old Woodstock end of the causeway was accepted …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its customs were ancient. The plots laid out at the town's foundation were held by burgage tenure, 76 and the … Woodstock, whose bailiff was accountable for the borough's rents, market tolls, and profits of court. 79 In King … in 1634 when the chamberlains were ordered to repair the bridge in Hollow Way and in 1828 when the corporation was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Wool 52 WOOL (8486) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 88 NW, bSY 88 NE, SY 89 SW) The modern parish … the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the S.W., through areas on … on dwarf walls which thus cleared the intrados of the bridge behind; of these only part of the S. respond of the S. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… thence, with the exception of the meadow north of Mickla Bridge and a small piece of land at Cone Pill the boundary … size of the hamlet is that in 1769 there was a blacksmith's shop. 28 Most of the older houses in the parish are in two … The deep valley east of Brockweir is crossed by Offa's Dyke, constructed between c. 784 and c. 796, and here …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 13 The road crossed the Withy Pill rhyne by Quaking bridge. 14 Other routes run east - west between Cossington … east - west street. They include Dawbins, Jacobs, Tassel's Cottage, no. 4 Vicarage Road, and Apple Tree Cottage. … Sir John Hody (d. 1441), chief justice of the king's bench. 6 Fifty horsemen, a foot company from the Bridgwater …