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A History of the County of York North Riding
… Soc.], 181), but if it ever existed it was probably in Saxon times. The story of the 'Proud Lady' of Nunnington who …
A History of the County of Surrey
… was at Aclea, among the Suthrige, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and the existence of the road explains the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a spring near the summit of Oddington Hill, where an Anglo-Saxon burial came to light in 1787. 6 Most of the parish lies …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Ot(t)a's l(a)h). 16 The discovery in about 1815 of a pagan Saxon cemetery in the Rectory garden is proof that there was … of the parish may well go back to the 6th century. 106 The Saxon settlement there was manorialized by the time of the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… it been of more than average size. 4 Traces of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery were found about 1875 south of the church …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of Offa, king of Mercia, the most famous monarch of the Saxon heptarchy; ham in Saxon signifying a village or dwelling. Probably from this, … to it, which the archbishops procured to most of the Saxon grants made to their church, if the lands were in this …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Ogbourne St. Andrew churchyard was re-used in Roman, Pagan Saxon, and medieval times. 19 If the tax assessments of the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Hill, on the Brendon ridge, is mentioned below. 51 The Saxon 'herpath' at Washford 52 presumably continued westwards …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Abbat. Rames. (Rolls Ser.), 53, 186, 201; Birch, Cartul. Saxon. iii, 638, 643; Kemble, Cod. Dipl, iii, pp. 1649; iv, …