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A History of the County of Bedford
… I, when he acquired the English crown, transferred the little colony to Bedfordshire and the neighbouring districts, … corn, with which this part much abounds, there being but little pasture; firing is very dear and scarce by reason of … still remain in their old quarters. The house itself is of little interest architecturally; the fittings of the chapel, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… side, and the third those on the west. There can be little doubt that there was once a village settlement in the … the main manor of Lydiard Tregoze. In 1900 Great and Little Chaddington farms still formed part of Bincknoll … been considerably altered. It dates from the 17th century. Little Chaddington, which was derelict in 1968, is of red …
A History of the County of Rutland
… their marriage. 19 Alan, the second son, held Easton, 20 Little Casterton and Lyndon, and presented to Lyndon church … fell on Alan, 22 but he was holding Easton, Lyndon and Little Casterton in 1236 and died in or before 1239. He was a … Simon de Lyndon, kt., he demised the manors of Lyndon and Little Casterton (q.v.) to Master Henry Sampson, who in 1285 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… sandier soils, especially around Shaw Farm. 18 There is little visible evidence of early settlement in the parish, … a number second only to Wootton Bassett. 27 Thereafter little is known of the population of the parish until 1801 … c.1773 Roads in the parish have changed comparatively little since the 18th century. The junction of all roads, …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… 11 The subsoil is inferior oolite and upper lias with a little Oxford clay at Ugthorpe; the soil is various. The … the church of St. Mary, Sandsend, before arriving at the little watering-place of Sandsend, 20 which is built at its … have partially blocked these two openings, but there is little or no trace of their junction with the main walls at …
Magna Britannia
… to have been at a place now called Nestes or Nestus, a little mining village at the foot of a high hill on the north … he married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Harpur Esq., of Little-Over; Jonathas Sacheverell, Esq., 1662, the last of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Street in the 19th century. Maddington village expanded little between the late 18th century and the mid 20th. On the … 240 In the early 19th century Homanton remained little affected by inclosure: there were open fields called … of arable to pasture, two thirds to a third, changed little between the 1860s and the 1890s. In 1894 Homanton …
Magna Britannia
… has expired, was at East-Looe. Opposite to Looe is the little island of St. George, which Carew speaks of as having …
Magna Britannia
… Coffleet. Lord Courtenay claims manerial jurisdiction over Little Manaton. Hountor was, in the reign of Richard the … Carwithen, the present incumbent. The great tithes of Little Manaton are appropriated to the church of Salisbury. … those periods. The villages of Daccombe (or Dockham) and Houghton are in this parish. Sir Thomas Fairfax was at …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… had once been a thriving town, but was in Mailduib's time little frequented. 4 Malmesbury's naturally defensible site … was mentioned and the Avon was Rodbourne's boundary with Little Somerford. 12 That last boundary was diverted west … town, was wooded in the Middle Ages, but later there was little woodland in the parish. In the 19th century and the …