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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… GREAT SOMERFORD Great Somerford, 1 5 km. south-east of Malmesbury on the Bristol Avon, 2 was called Somerford … sold it to Richard Hutchins, who in 1708 gave it to Exeter College, Oxford, to provide a living for a fellow. 211 In 1967 the college was assigned the second and fourth of four turns of …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… (xvi cent.). This large parish, which comprises an area of 6,407 acres, lies on the borders of Bedfordshire and in … it passed to Archbishop Laud. Laud gave it to St. John's College, Cambridge, of which he was president, who are still … de Crioll to the priory, where she was buried, and for the health of the souls of their mother, of themselves and of …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… (xvi cent.) covering 2,875 acres, lies in the centre of the county, adjoining Huntingdon on the south. The Great … towards the south-west, where Alconbury Brook forms part of the boundary, the pasture land is liable to flood, the … in 1517 sold it to the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge, who still hold it. 33 The second holding …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Great Tew GREAT TEW Great Tew, a large parish of 3,007 a. (1,217 ha.) lies 16 miles (26 km.) north-west of … other uses. 83 Loudon founded a short-lived 'agricultural college' at Great Tew in 1808, but it seems to have amounted … 399 Thomas Wilcotes in 1471 gave land to Oriel College, Oxford, for obits for himself, his wife Eleanor, his …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… WISHFORD Great Wishford village is 8.5 km. north-west of Salisbury. 1 The parish measures 680 ha. (1,679 a.). The … fixed early: the boundary is marked by the main course of the river in some places, by side-streams in others. To … a. on Ebsbury Hill provide evidence of Iron-Age and Romano-British settlement, and coin hoards probably deposited in the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… GREENWICH LIES next to Deptford eastward, on the bank of the Thames, having Blackheath on the upper or southern … corner of the heath, in a small recess, stands Morden-college, built for the support of poor and decayed Turkey … to a like amount, which he conceived to be lower British, and on opening one, in which were similar beads to …
A History of the County of Northampton
… (xiv cent.); Greendon (xvii cent.). The parish and village of Grendon is seated on high ground commanding a view over a … passed with the rectory to the new foundation of Trinity College in 1546. 73 This college still presented in the 19th century, but in 1926 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Guilden Morden GUILDEN MORDEN THE long, narrow parish of Guilden Morden, 1 c. 13 km. south-west of Cambridge and … slight eminence just south of Ashwell Street was a Romano-British cemetery, partly eaten away by the village clunch … in 1717, was not affected by his devise for endowing a college, so that Sir Jacob's leaving it to his widow Margaret …
Magna Britannia
… Haccombe - Hittesleigh Haccombe HACCOMBE, in the hundred of Wonford and in the deanery of Kenne, is an extraparochial … any peculiar privileges. The fact is, that it was made a college or arch-presbytery by Sir John L'Ercedekne about the … of his father-in-law, Sir Stephen de Haccombe. The college consisted of an arch-priest and five other priests, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… (xvxix cent.). Hagbourne ecclesiastical parish consists of the two civil parishes or 'liberties' of East and West Hagbourne. Their total area is 2,815 acres; … is said to have originally been in the chapel of Exeter College, Oxford. On the front of the pulpit is a shield with …