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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Parishes Little Paxton LITTLE PAXTON 1 The parish of Little Paxton contains 1,521 acres of land. The subsoil is … in completion of a sale made previously to St. John's College, Cambridge. 90 The College at the end of the 19th century sold the Manor Farm to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… anciently called Rissington Basset, 1 is a parish of 1,475 a. lying on the east bank of the River Dikler. This river, with the River Windrush … and passed with other property of theirs to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 126 Some of the land in the east of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Little Shelford LITTLE SHELFORD The parish of Little Shelford 1 lies c. 6 km. south of Cambridge, on the … and the manor house to William Walton, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, whose daughter lived there in 1903. 66 C. … rector and patron, sold the advowson to St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. 144 The college retained the advowson, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Somerford LITTLE SOMERFORD Little Somerford, 1 in a bend of the Bristol Avon 4.5 km. south-east of Malmesbury, 2 was called Somerford Mauduit in the Middle … Part of a late Bronze-Age artifact and a hoard of Romano-British coins have been found in the parish. 15 Little …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Stocton Parva, Stokton Parva (xiii cent.). The parish of Little Staughton comprises an area of 1,746 acres, of … of Bishop Fox of Winchester, founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in a wooden case of the same date covered … in 1615, 68 who the next year sold it to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 69 who are the present patrons. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Little Tew LITTLE TEW Little Tew lies 5 miles (8 km.) east of Chipping Norton and 9 miles (14 km.) south-west of … have been found south of the village, as have Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon pottery and tools. 10 There is, … adopted by the leading landowners in the parish, Exeter College and Eton College, did not encourage development, and …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… close to the stream which bounds the eastern part of it, and at the same time to distinguish it from the other parishes of the name of Borne in the near neighbourhood of it. There … which lie near the Stour, quits that gloomy aspect of ill health so prevalent near them, and here begins to assume one …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Littlemore LITTLEMORE There was no ancient parish of Littlemore: the township was divided at an early date … it spread along a road leading to Cowley and the modern College Lane. The pound stood on the south-west corner of College Lane. The stocks were originally on the bank outside …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… (xiii cent.); Lokerle Boteler (xv cent.). The parish of Lockerley, covering an area of 1,647 acres, of which about 6 acres are land covered by … oratory of his house in Lockerley on account of his ill-health. 66 Robert Payne was apparently the tenant of the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1921, 525; 1931, 491. The parish, in the extreme south of the county, is bounded on the east and south by … to the Crown, by whom they were granted in 1547 to Eton College. 102 The college retained both rectory and advowson until 1907, when …