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A History of the County of Hampshire
… (xi cent.); Elyngham, Aylingham (xiv cent.). The parish of Ellingham contains 2,558 acres, of which 725 acres are … of the priory the advowson was granted by Henry VI to Eton College, 87 to which Edward IV in 1462 88 granted also the fruits of the church. About 1880 89 Eton College sold the advowson to the late Earl of Normanton, to …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… a central block containing the village is a long tongue of land projecting west and a shorter tongue running out to the east. It has an area of 2,700 acres, of which nearly three-quarters are grass … manor house of the tenants of Ramsey Abbey. St. Peter's College Farm, to the south-east of the church, is the Rectory …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… xiii, xiv cent.). The 2,349 acres comprising the parish of Ellisfield are part of the high sweep of country that rises southwest of … This road mounts uphill, past Bushy Leaze Copse and College Farm, the Fox Inn, and Cooper's and Merritt's Farms …
A History of the County of Worcester
… (xiii cent.); Castell Emlegh (xiv cent.). The parish of Elmley Castle lies in the south-east of the county. It is … A rent roll of the honour in 1698 is preserved at the British Museum. 52 When the castle was purchased by Colonel … Savage died seised of 'the chantry of Elmley called Le College' in 1616, 157 and it then followed the same descent …
A History of the County of Worcester
… Amelegh, Aumleye Lovet, Auneleg (xiii cent.). The parish of Elmley Lovett, situated 5 miles north-west of Droitwich, has an area of 2,365 acres, which includes 664 … Lynes, 124 who sold it probably about 1837 to Christ's College, Cambridge, 125 to which it still belongs. In 1316 a …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… as many other places do, which are recorded in the survey of Domesday, from the quantity of elms growing in it, elm signifying in Saxon, that tree, … and is at present unmarried; and John, late of All Souls college, Oxford, who married Miss Wake, daughter of Dr. …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Parishes Elmstone Hardwicke ELMSTONE HARDWICKE The parish of Elmstone Hardwicke lies mainly north-east of the Cheltenham-Tewkesbury road, about 3 miles north-west … 124 In the mid-18th century it was said that Jesus College, Oxford, was the impropriator, 125 but in 1779 Mrs. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Elsfield ELSFIELD The cottages and farm-houses of Elsfield form a single gently descending street, with the … until the Dissolution, when it passed in turn to Cardinal College and to Henry VIII's College. 76 After being assigned to Cardinal Pole by Act of …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… LIES next to Woolwich, southward, on the opposite side of the great London road. It takes its name from the two … best description of it. Mr. Charles Clarke, late of Baliol-college, Oxford, in 1751, published Some Conjectures, … for ever to place three poor people in queen Elizabeth's college, in Greenwich, who do not receive any assistance from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Eltisley ELTISLEY The compact parish of Eltisley, which extends to 1,970 a., 1 lies on the borders … times the village has had at least two centres. Jesus College Farm, a 17th-century building, stands by Caxton End … are farm-houses and three of these, Manor Farm, Jesus College Farm, and Green Farm, are described below. 47 Pond …