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A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Aston Rowant ASTON ROWANT The ancient parish of Aston Rowant was exceptionally large for an Oxfordshire … The line was closed for passenger traffic in June 1957, by British Railways. 29 Aston Rowant village takes its name from … the manor was given to Cardinal Wolsey to endow his Oxford college. 194 On his fall Chalford must have reverted to the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… (xvi cent.). Aston Tirrold lies on the southern edge of the fertile valley which crosses the county nearly east … acting for William of Wykeham in the foundation of New College, Oxford. 64 Joan, then wife of Robert atte Wood, had … formed part of the estate with which Wykeham endowed the college. 65 She was still living in June 1392, when the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1911, 5,607; 1921, 5,957; 1931, 6,245. The parish of Atherstone comprises the northern part of the old … to Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, with reversion to King's College, Cambridge, Henry VI's new foundation. 42 In April … 14416, p. 269. In 1648 the Provost and Scholars of King's College petitioned the Revenue Commission, relating that …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Parishes Avebury AVEBURY The parish of Avebury, at the head of the river Kennet some 8 km. west … into historic times is well attested. Iron-Age and Romano-British field systems have been identified beside the Kennett … including AVEBURY manor, were granted to Fotheringhay college (Northants.) in 1411. 101 In 1545 the college …
A History of the County of Essex
… Aveley AVELEY Aveley lies beside the Thames, 26 km. east of London and 6.5 km. north-west of Grays Thurrock. 1 The … the other 16th-century piece, a Tudor rose, is at King's College, Cambridge. 131 Lord Dacre had augmented the earlier … an associated design for a bedroom, see J. Harris, Cat. of British Drawings for Architecture in American Colln. 324, and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… The Saxon Chronicle, supposed to be written about the time of Bede, names it gelesford; Nennius, the Bri tish historian, … the first landing of the latter in Britain. Vortimer, the British king, having assembled his forces, in order to give … this vicarage for Kingsdown near Wrotham. Provost of Oriel college, and vicar of Lamberhurst. …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… is now broken up into the four ecclesiastical parishes of Aysgarth, Askrigg, Hardraw, and Hawes, includes the whole valley of the Ure from a point just above Castle Bolton to the … rectory and advowson to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, 280 the present patrons. 281 The tithes …
A History of the County of Rutland
… (xviii cent. onwards); Ayson (xviii cent.). The area of the parish of Ayston is 904 acres, with a population of 56 in 1921, … church from the south-east, dated October 7, 1818, in the British Museum. At the north-east angle the moulding is …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… hundred, lies across the river Granta 6 miles southeast of Cambridge. 1 Its boundaries, enclosing an area of 2,387 … Edith's will, they granted the income from it to Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1502, to maintain a priest for 60 … Hall, Cambridge. 157 The manor was probably part of the college estate claimed and apparently won by Sir Horatio …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… with hardly any thoroughfare, lying on the opposite side of the high road from Faversham to Ashford, which runs along … six miles from the former, mostly on high ground, the soil of it in this part of it is tolerable good and level, much … this history, p. 191. See Collins's Peer. vol. i. p. 60. British Biog. p. 2191. Rot. Esch. ejus an. Likewise rector of …