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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… COMMONLY called Starchfield, adjoins to the parish of Easling south-eastward. It is called in Domesday, … same as Stonefield, a name well adapted to the flinty soil of it. THE PARISH is an unfrequented and obscure place, … of Sir George Ent, M. D. of London, and president of the college of physicians, and widow of Francis Head, esq. eldest …
A History of the County of Hertford
… and later). Standon is a large, irregularly shaped parish of about 7,738 acres, including 30 acres of water. Of this … the last three now part of the park of St. Edmund's College, Poundfield, Hop Ground, Hoppett and Colliers Croft … Davies (181491), mineralogist and palaeontologist at the British Museum, had a residence at Colliers End, where he …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Dyneley, Stanford Dingley (xvi cent.). The greater part of the parish of Stanford Dingley lies on the north side of the valley of … patron. 72 Thomas Tesdale, one of the founders of Pembroke College, Oxford, was born here in 1547, and Francis Pordage, …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Stanvord (xiv cent.). Stanford in the Vale has an area of 2,920 acres of land and 7 acres of land covered by water, … 'Andrew Doket the president, and the fellows of the royal college of St. Margaret and St. Bernard within the University … which he and his wife had endowed it were taken away, 'the college no whit grieving thereat, as sensible no endowment …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… (xiii cent.); Stanground (xiv cent.). The parish of Stanground formerly lay partly in Huntingdonshire and … a new grant in fee, 65 he gave the advowson to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he was the founder, 66 and the college still owns it. 67 The deed by which the vicarage was …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Stanmer is a Downland parish lying on the southern slopes of the main range, below Ditchling Beacon. The parish … yearly. 6 This land continued in the possession of the college until it was surrendered with the rest of the site … that of Falmer (q.v.). While it was a possession of the College of South Mailing the archbishop, as nominal head of …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Abbots after xvi cent. Stanstead Abbots is a parish of 2,612 acres, bounded on the north-west by the River Ash, … and by will of 1586 gave money and houses to Brasenose College to increase the emoluments of the principal and … V.C.H. Herts. ii, 120. A rubbing of the brass is at the British Museum (Add. MS. 32490, RR, 17). Dict. Nat. Biog.; …
A History of the County of Hertford
… St. Margaret's STANSTEAD ST. MARGARET'S The earliest name of this parish seems to be Thele (Thele, xii cent.; Theele, … William de Goldington, then lord of the manor, founded a college of a warden and four chaplains who were to celebrate … Oxford, his heirs and ancestors. Sir William endowed the college with various lands in Thele, Amwell and Bures Giffard …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… is a long narrow parish, 2,043 a., about 6 miles east of Devizes reaching up from the Pewsey Vale to the … Priors. 153 The united benefice is in the gift of New College, Oxford. The advowson of the prebend descended with … map, 1885. V.C.H. Wilts. iv. 2867. Ex inf. P.R. Dept., British Rail, W.R. W.R.S. viii, pl. 11. Ibid.; W.A.S. Libr., …
A History of the County of Oxford
… STANTON ST. JOHN Stanton St. John lies north-east by east of Oxford, the nearest boundary of the parish being three … of the manor: there is evidence that John White, New College's farmer, occupied it and carried out extensive … 39 the Puritan 'patriarch of Dorchester', Fellow of New College, and prime mover in the foundation of Massachusetts, …