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A History of the County of Warwick
… Avon and on the west by the River Sowe, and the presence of these streams accounts for the unusually large amount of … 1539 Baginton was the main source of timber for St. Mary's College, Warwick, and there were coppices, saleable at 16 or … church at Warwick, 29 in whose hands it remained until the college was dissolved in 1544. In 1535 the estate was …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… WOOD Bacganleah (x cent.); Baggalea (xii cent.). The tract of land called Bagley Wood, which was extra-parochial in … became the resort of gipsies and bad characters St. John's College was compelled by the justices of Berkshire to inclose … of common rights in the wood began in 1843, and the college finally decided in 1847 to inclose the wood under the …
Magna Britannia
… Parishes Bakewell Bakewell The extensive parish of BAKEWELL comprises the township of that name; the … for permission to repair to Buxton wells for his health, speaks thus, in a letter to Sir Francis Walsingham, … her safely here and there alyke." Lodge's Illustration of British History, vol. ii. p. 109. The following instructions …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Balsham BALSHAM The parish of Balsham 1 lying 9 miles south-east of Cambridge and 3 … Balsham. His father, William Frere, was master of Downing College and spent part of each year at Balsham. 31 The author … farm. In 1877 that land was purchased by St. John's College, Cambridge, which sold it in 1946 to H. E. Eastwood. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… BALTONSBOROUGH The parish and ancient chapelry of Baltonsborough lies in the broad, flat Brue valley 5 km. south-east of Glastonbury. 1 It may derive part of its name from a … 399 In 1998 it moved to new premises in Ham Street. The British school, built in 1860, was a Moravian school attached …
Magna Britannia
… Bampton BAMPTON, a small market town in the hundred of that name and in the deanery of Tiverton, is about seven miles from Tiverton, 20 from … retire for a while into Devonshire for the recovery of his health. His parents, doubtless, were inhabitants of …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Bansted (xviii cent.). Banstead is a village 3 miles south of Sutton on the east of the road to Reigate. The parish measures 6 miles from … Rose being already dead, to his new foundation of Eton College. 58 This grant was, however, cancelled by Edward IV, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… equally unpleasant as it is unhealthy, lying most part of it low, the water bad, and the air unwholesome from the … Bapchild-street, containing about twenty houses, (one of which in the middle of it is the vicarage, a small but … place of such consequence in the Saxon times, as to have a British council held at it. THE PARAMOUNT MANOR of Milton …
A History of the County of Warwick
… This small parish is pleasantly situated on the left bank of the River Avon, which forms its western boundary. The … of the manor. A manor of Barford was in the hands of the college of Westbury-on-Trym (Gloucs.) in 1535, when the … been given, presumably by Richard, Earl of Warwick, to the college in about 1465, at which time the canons acquired the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… St. Michael or Great Barford lies 5 miles (8 km.) south of Banbury and 2 miles (3 km.) west of Deddington on the … within its limits. Remains of what may have been a Romano-British village were found near the site of Blackingrove … Hornhill (Dyer's Farm), inscribed J. S. Harris 1828, and College Farm have ashlar fronts of 3 bays and 3 storeys …