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A History of the County of Northampton
… On the east the Ise brook 1 divides it from the Hundred of Huxloe, and the land near it is low and liable to floods. … Harrowden were granted under the will of Henry VIII to the College of St. Mary the Virgin and All Saints of … MSS. Com. ( Var. Coll.), iii, 76. These are now in the British Museum, Add. MSS. 3982838. Com. Pleas, Deeds Enr. …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Moche (xvi cent.). See Little Houghton for variants of 'Houghton'. The parish of Great Houghton lies west of Little Houghton and like it is … to be the year in which itwas transferred to Magdalen College, Oxford, 149 the present patrons. Charity Margaret …
A History of the County of Worcester
… (xii cent.); Much Malvern (xvi-xvii cent.). The parish of Great Malvern formerly included the hamlet of Guarlford … mentioned in 1545, is a mile to the south. 17 Malvern College is a large modern Tudor building with a gate-house … trust is for the benefit of clergymen obliged by failing health or length of years to resign their benefices. Census …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Merlaue (xi cent.). The whole ecclesiastical parish of Great Marlow, to which Ackhampstead in Lewknor-up-Hill, … early 19th century it was used as a hostel of the Military College, and later, on the removal of the college to … however, are preserved in the Craven Ord collection at the British Museum and in the Franks collection at the Society of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Great Milton GREAT MILTON The ancient parish of Great Milton 1 was large and irregularly shaped: it was 5 … 66 John Smith was a royalist and a benefactor of Trinity College, who was heavily fined in 1649 for his aid to the … Great Milton was settled at an early date. No trace of British and little of Roman occupation has been found in the …
A History of the County of Hertford
… cent.); Wilmundele (xiv and xv cent.); Wimley. The parish of Great Wymondley has an area of 1,490 acres, of which 1,397 … were included in the grant of Hitchin rectory to Trinity College, Cambridge, by Heniy VIII. The church was evidently … of which there are record were made by Trinity College except in 1663 and 1675, when the Bishop of Lincoln …
A History of the County of Essex
… GREAT PARNDON Great Parndon lies on the western side of Harlow town. The ancient parish, comprising 2,232 a. (903 ha.), lay 35 km. NNE of London and 5 km. west of Harlow village. 1 A short branch … rector 163545, had been divinity professor at Gresham College (Lond.), and he was also rector of East Hanningfield. …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Paxton (xiii cent.), Much Paxton (xvi cent.). The parish of Great Paxton contains 1406 acres. The land is low-lying, … London Lane, a name which goes back to the 16th century. College Farm, in the west of the parish, takes its name from … 1811. 2 Both Neolithic surface implements and a few Romano-British finds have been discovered in the parish. 3 MANORS. …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Rauele, Great Ravele, Raffleya (xiv cent.). The parish of Great Raveley covers 1,781 acres of mostly clay land, rising from Great Raveley Fen in the … in 1732, which was formerly paid out of land called the College Lane, has since the inclosure which took place about …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Great Shelford GREAT SHELFORD The parish of Great Shelford, 1 c. 5 km. south of Cambridge, lies on the … legacies. 70 It was bought in 1614 by Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 71 which held c. 330 a. in Great Shelford … with the rising population to c. 300 in the 1960s. 349 A British school was built c. 1845, near the junction of High …