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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… William de Holme, Lady Blanche's servant ( vadlet), in the wood of Somersham. 4 Holme had an interest in the manor of La … which paid geld and 2 carucates in demesne.' There was wood for pannage a mile long, and about the same quantity of …
Magna Britannia
… has been sold in parcels, and is still a divided property. Wood was for many generations the property and residence of a … William Pole speaks of it as then lately sold by George Wood, their representative: I cannot find that any estate of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… a height of about 600 ft. above the ordnance datum. Combe Wood takes up the whole of the south-western portion of the … four-centred head and chamfered jambs. The tower is of wood on a flint and stone foundation of the width of the nave …
A History of the County of Warwick
… part open, with one extensive block of woodland at High Wood, just east of the Abbey Park. A road from Coventry to … mostly dry. Other earthworks near by, south-east of Mobbs Wood, mark the site of Upper Smite. L. and P. Hen. VIII, xxi …
A History of the County of Surrey
… on the north side of the parish. Compton: Old Inn In the wood to the north-west of the village, at the foot of the … House, Sunny Down, now occupied as a school, and Prior's Wood Lodge are modern houses. MANORS The original manor of … 119 In 1249 the tenant of Compton had estovers in the wood of Compton towards the repair of the 'house of the court …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Emma his wife quitclaimed 70 acres of land, 10 acres of wood, 2 acres of meadow, and 8 s. rent in Compton from …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… ascends Compton brook and then returns by field and wood boundaries to the Cheltenham road. On the Puesdown ridge … Compton manor for its lord to employ a man as forester and wood vendor in 1401, 11 and a woodward managed the lord's wood in 1535. 12 Of the two main areas of woodland in the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… west window of the transept is modern, replacing one of wood already mentioned. In the east wall a recess, found in a … is brown and the legs white with yellow waistcloth. The wood of the cross is green. V.C.H. Berks. i, 351. Pope Nich. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… a. 7 A detached part of Charlton Adam parish in Copley wood, known as Cold Harbour lands, was transferred to Compton … and rising to over 120 m. (394 ft.) in Great Breach wood above Compton. Below the scarp, the top of which is … in 1598, most holding small parcels of demesne, park, or wood by lease in addition to their copyhold tenements. One …