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A History of the County of Buckingham
… Pitchthorn, Pitstone (xvii xviii cent.). The parish of Pitstone consists of 1,644 acres, of which 949 acres are … 4 probably marked the site of the manor held here by the college of Ashridge ( vide infra). At the Church Farm is a … Gaddesden, and it belonged, with the latter manor, to the college of Ashridge. 7 A confirmation of lands to that …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… other records, Plukele. It is situated on the lower ridge of hills called the Quarry-hills; the parish is about two … below the hills into the Weald, where the greatest part of it consists of that portion of Pevington allotted to it; … in parliament, a manuscript copy of which is in the British Museum, among the Harleian MSS. He was the founder of …
A History of the County of Sussex
… cent.); Plompton (xv and xvi cent.). Plumpton has an area of 2,450 acres, and is the strip of country lying to the east of Streat. At the southern end … lies to the east of the church and the County Agricultural College. Two cottages designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens form an …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the next parish northward from East Wickham, on the banks of the river Thames, which is its northern boundary. This … in Old Windsor, to the provost and scholars of Queen's college, in Oxford, and their successors for ever; to the … and four bachelor-scholars might be maintained in the college, with such competent allowances as the income thereof …
Magna Britannia
… a market and borough town, in the hundred and deanery of that name, lies about five miles from Plymouth, 39 from … at Underwood on the 5th of July. At this place was a college, founded by one of the Saxon kings, for a dean and four prebendaries, or canons. This college was suppressed in the year 1121, by Bishop William …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Parishes Podimore Milton PODIMORE MILTON The ancient parish of Podimore Milton, known as Middleton or Milton Abbatis from … And Population There is evidence of Iron-Age and Romano-British settlement notably in the former east field where a possible Romano-British trackway passes through an area known in the 14th …
A History of the County of Bedford
… (xi cent.); Henewic, Hynewyk (xiii cent.). The parish of Podington with Farndish includes 3,515 acres, of which … most of the women and children in this parish, whose health was declared to be 'considerably impaired thereby, … a small earthenware urn, supposed to be of the ancient British period, was ploughed out from a small heap of stones …
A History of the County of Warwick
… which it forms when it again turns north lies the village of Polesworth, with its church, school, Baptist, … road runs north-east, crossing the Trent Valley section of the L.M.S. Railway near Polesworth station and continuing … (the Dining Room) which would represent the buttery of a college hall, the narrow space between them, now containing …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Parishes Popham POPHAM Popeham (xi cent.). The small parish of Popham, containing only 1,440 acres, lies north of Micheldever and East Stratton on high ground, which rises … though not actually within the parish boundary, one in College Wood in Woodmancott, just without the southern …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Ladda (xi cent.); Portislade (xiii cent.). The parish of Portslade covers a wedge-shaped piece of country lying on … Sweet Brow having the remains of contemporary and Romano-British settlements upon them. 2 The remains of a Romano-British building have been discovered near Easthill House, 3 …