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A History of the County of Somerset
… Parishes Cudworth CUDWORTH Cudworth, on the northern scarp of Windwhistle ridge, covered an area of 1,100 a. in 1841, and 1,125 a. by 1901. 1 From its … 'unbounded prospects of the surrounding country and the British and Bristol channels'. 2 The southern boundary with …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Culham CULHAM The parish lies some 7 miles south of Oxford in a bend of the River Thames, which forms its … Taynton quarries, for instance, for the building of Eton College passed through Culham by road and was not loaded upon … year. 64 It was enlarged in 1849. 65 The Diocesan Training College for Schoolmasters stands on the main …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Colmanora (vii cent.); Comenore (xi cent.). The parish of Cumnor has an area of 7,453 acres, including the modern parish of Wootton, which … the early 19th century at least the property of Merton College. 23 Chilswell, a lonely farm on the eastern boundary …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1 Population: 1911, 335; 1921, 413; 1931, 405. The parish of Curdworth lies about 8 miles from Birmingham on the … date of its formation is not known. 7 By a Ministry of Health Order No. 75387 (Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield … to include the Castle Bromwich Aerodrome, the site of the British Industries Fair (Birmingham Section), and other land …
Magna Britannia
… about five miles from Penrith: it contains the townships of Dacre, Great-Blencowe, Newbiggin, Soulby, and Stainton. … spoken of. The rectory of Dacre was appropriated to the college at Kirk-Oswald, so late as the reign of Henry VIII. … this crest assigned to Denton of Cardew at the Heralds College. Sometimes written Gatesgill. Mr. T. Denton says, …
Magna Britannia
… Parishes Dalbury - Derby Dalbury DALBURY, in the hundred of Appletree and deanery of Castillar, lies about six miles … tithes, which had belonged to the Abbey of Darley; to the College of All-Saints; the Gild of the Holy Trinity; the … of Church Architecture. Lodge, in his Illustrations of British History, gives the following character of this …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… THIS PARISH takes within its bounds almost the whole both of Dartford-heath and the Brent. It contains about 4300 acres … to cardinal Wolsey, for the better endowment of his college, vulgarly called Cardinal college, in Oxford. But … of Dartford, in honour of the Blessed Virgin, and for the health of his soul, &c. and he appointed Ralph de Felthorpe …
Magna Britannia
… - Dunterton Dartington DARTINGTON, in the hundred of Stanborough and in the deanery of Totton, lies about a … been a favourite place of resort for the benefit of his health. The principal villages in this parish are Cockwood … that of Cetley, mostly consisting of woods, to King's College in Cambridge. The barton of Clifford, which has been …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… and Berkshire. The land in the neighbourhood of the river is only 56 ft. above ordnance datum and is liable to inundation. The area of Datchet is 1,385 acres, including 497 acres of arable … the property bequeathed to Isaac Vossins in 1673. 166 Eton College at the Dissolution owned a small rent-charge on land …
A History of the County of Hertford
… cent.); Dachesworth, Daccheworthe (xiv cent.). The parish of Datchworth has an area of 2,018 acres, of which about … months later sold it to William Greaves, fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, 67 and he shortly afterwards conveyed it to his college, 68 in whose hands it has since remained. 69 A …