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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Parishes Overton OVERTON Overton 1 was made up of two separate triangles of land and contained approximately … ha. is surrounded by a bank and ditch. 30 There are Romano-British settlement sites north of the Bell inn, in the coomb … another sold the Alton estate, 1,100 a., in 1912 to New College, Oxford, owner in 1977. 265 The Button family were …
A History of the County of Sussex
… a mile and a half wide, lying along the eastern boundary of Brighton, and its apex, 2 miles due east, on the summit of High Hill, dividing Rottingdean from Balsdean. Part of the … to the west of the village, are the remains of Romano-British fields, and other finds of the period have been made …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Oselbury (xiv. cent.); Owlesbury (xiv cent.). The parish of Owslebury consists of 22 acres of land covered with water … as is now to be seen is said to belong rather to the college of priests founded here than to the episcopal house. … of Marwell. 12 Bishop Fox, who founded Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 151516, endowed it with the demesne lands …
A History of the County of Surrey
… (xv cent.). Oxted is a parish and village 3 miles east of Godstone and 20 miles from London. It contains 3,646 acres … Act or of common fields. Bell Inn, Oxted An uninscribed British gold coin has been found in Oxted, and is described … and 50 from Mr. George Marchant of Coltsford Mill. Early British Coins, 50. Surr. Arch. Coll. v, p. xxvi; Johnson and …
Magna Britannia
… is partly in Leicestershire and partly in the hundred of Repton and Gresley, in Derbyshire. The church is in Leicestershire; the greater part of the houses are in Derbyshire. Pentrich PENTRICH, in the … of Pernbroke-hall, (of her foundation,) and that the college exchanged this share with the priory of Repton, for a …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… is the next parish southward from Acrise. The manors of Liminge and Eleham both claim within this parish. … It is very small, the church standing in the middle of it, near three or four mean cottages, which make the … of Acrise, only still more barren, with a great deal of health or common throughout it, a wretched and miserable …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… cent.); Padesworth, Pappeworth (xiv cent.). The parish of Padworth lies to the north-east of Aldermaston, between Padworth Gully, which forms the … within the churchyard. A drawing of it is preserved in the British Museum. The former altar table, which dates from the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Pamber (xv cent.). Pamber is a scattered parish north-west of Basingstoke. It contains 2,184 acres of land, of which … they complained that the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, Oxford, who had succeeded to Sherborne Priory lands, … for a priest, and that the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College should give them leave to use the old Priory church. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… as 'Pampesworth', is a small parish 7 miles south-east of Cambridge. 1 Its eastern boundary follows the Roman road … as Saffreys in 1402, had by 1519 been acquired by Queens' College, Cambridge. 76 The college then held 187 a. in Pampisford, which had increased …
Magna Britannia
… Pancras Week - Plymouth Paignton PAIGNTON, in the hundred of Haytor and in the deanery of Ipplepen, lies on the Torbay … year 1546. He was some time President of Corpus Christi College, in Oxford. Sir Edmund Elwill, who died in 1740, gave … been one of the principal places of rendezvous of the British navy. From this port Edward the Black Prince, after …