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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Coton COTON Coton stands 2 miles west of Cambridge. 1 It was originally dependent upon … 8 as the farm-house in Coton of a manor owned by King's College and centred on Grantchester. It was damaged by fire … supported by subscription in 1836. 293 There was also a British school. 294 In 1844 the rector had for some years …
A History of the County of Oxford
… COTTISFORD This parish 1 lies about six miles north of Bicester and four miles south of Brackley in the … lay mainly west of the ford. Here is the Rectory and College Farm (formerly Manor Farm), a stone 18th-century … first in the hands of Bec Abbey and later in those of Eton College, there was no resident lord of the manor. 27 The …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Coulsdon is a parish on the Chalk Downs 6 miles south of Croydon and 16 miles by road from London. It contains … in the chalk, called Smitham Bottom, once no doubt the bed of a stream, the water of which now breaks out only at the … impossible that the same spot may have been the site of British interments. 2 It is about 400 ft. above the sea …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… COWDEN. SOUTHWARD from Hever lies COWDEN, at the extremity of this county adjoining to Sussex. It is called in the … THIS PARISH, wholly within the Weald, lies at the confines of this county, adjoining to Sussex southward, from which it … by his will intitled to the present possession of it. The college of Lingfield, in Surry, held an estate in this …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Cowley COWLEY The ancient parish of Cowley is now almost entirely within the boundaries of the … in the second half of the century of a large military college, of a factory, and of the military barracks (1877) on … Garages took over the premises of the bankrupt Military College, and the industrialization of the Cowleys advanced …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… so called from its cold and bleak situation. THIS PARISH of Cowling is more than four miles in length, from north to … has the right of nomination to one place in the New College of Cobham, for one poor person, inhabitant of this … of which one, such as by the ordinances of the said college have power to choose for this parish, nominate and …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… in all more than 13,000 acres, lying at the south end of the Hambleton Hills. It included in 1831 the townships of … the advowson in 1547 to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. 264 From the time of the Commonwealth … 1839 the right of presentation was exercised by Trinity College till 1899, when the advowson was conveyed to the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… LIES the next parish eastward from Goudhurst, a small part of it is in the north borough of the hundred of Great Barnefield, and another small part in … 15 Henry VII. and Edmund was S. T. P. provost of Oriel college, in Oxford, &c. and died in 1507. They bore for their …
A History of the County of Essex
… Cranham CRANHAM Cranham lies about 3 miles south-west of Brentwood and 5 miles east of Romford. The ancient parish … Ludbey's widow, Jane, sold the advowson to St. John's College, Oxford, with whom it has since remained. 124 The … MS. 9557. C.P. 25(2)/1313/58 Geo. III Hil. St. John's College, Oxford, muniments lxxv. 15; reference supplied by …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Cranle (xiii cent.). 1 Cranley till recently. Cranleigh of late years to avoid confusion in post and railway with … of the school. The Rev. J. Merriman, D.D., St. John's College, Cambridge, was the first head master. The late head master was the Rev. G. C. Allen, M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge. 8 Mr. C. H. Tyler, M.A., was appointed …