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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Brinkworth 1841 Brinkworth village is 8.5 km. ESE. of Malmesbury. 1 The parish, shaped like Africa, is one of … found nearby suggest that Longman's Street is of Romano-British origin. 46 Following Woodbridge brook, it was near … Henry, Lord Holland, sold the advowson in 1830 to Pembroke College, Oxford. 215 The college transferred it in 1927 to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the adjoining Britwell Prior (720 a.), a detached portion of Newington parish in Ewelme hundred, the ancient parish of … Edmund Alyard (14921508), a prominent Fellow of Oriel College and a pluralist, was probably non-resident. 170 From … years. The rector James T. Johnson (185192) was in poor health, 198 and although he usually held regular services he …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Bryxworth al. Bryckelsworth (xvi cent.). The parish of Brixworth covers an area of 3,148 acres, and rises to a little over 400 ft. above the … of thin bricks, evidently re-used from the ruins of Romano-British buildings near the site, 87 employed chiefly in the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… across it. 1 Broad Chalke village lies 10 km. WSW. of Salisbury at the centre of the parish; in the wider part … 18 the associated field system covered 20 ha. 19 A Romano-British enclosure of 1.2 ha. on part of the field system was … a licence to appropriate Broad Chalke church to King's College, Cambridge. 110 The appropriation took place in 1449. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Broad Hinton BROAD HINTON Broad Hinton lies at the head of the Kennet valley 7 km. south-west of Swindon. 1 The … site of burials and perhaps also of a house of the Romano-British period. 19 Bincknoll Castle, a fortified enclosure of … White. 174 Those lands were sold after 1945 to Brasenose College, Oxford. 175 Economic History. Broad Hinton, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… county boundary also until 1935. 2 The western boundary of the parish lay on the ridge running north from Stow, … early 16th century. 136 In 1535, however, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, which held the Templars' manor of Guiting, … 321 The day school, taught in a cottage known as the College opposite the eastern end of the green, 322 was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… BROKENBOROUGH Brokenborough village is 2.5 km. north-west of Malmesbury abbev. 1 In 1086 Malmesbury abbey's large … 19th and 20th centuries was a civil parish. 5 The Romano-British settlement now called White Walls stood where the Roman Foss Way crossed the Sherston branch of the Bristol Avon on the edge of Brokenborough parish, 6 …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Bruham (xiii cent.). Bromham is a parish 3 miles north of Bedford, containing 1,827 acres, of which 664 are arable … a grange which, like the advowson (q.v.), passed to Eton College, and in 1593 was leased to Sir Lewis Dyve. 61 … 70 became Crown property and was granted in 1547 to Eton College, to which with the exception of occasional leases it …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Parishes Bromham BROMHAM The parish of Bromham lies 4 miles north-west of Devizes and the same … including Bromham, for the years 1565 to 1612 is in the British Museum. 54 During those years the court of the manor … July 1950 was 82. There were 3 teachers. 189 Charity The College of the Poor stands on the slope of the hill to the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… a 'field or pasture, where broom grows. The parish is of a large circumference, being near four miles in length. … opulent gentlemen's families, which, together with the college, situated at the north end of it, the bishop of … lord Gwydir, and he is the present owner of it. Bromley college, a charity as unexampled at the time of its …