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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… said to be descended from an ancestor of the same name, a Saxon born, who lived in the time of king Edward the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… 8 d. Skeat derives the name of this parish from the Anglo-Saxon prefix scearn, meaning filth, that is, a brook in bad …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… was in the hands of Hugh the son of Baldric. 9 Hugh was a Saxon thane and Sheriff of Yorkshire, and after his death the … of the church in 1839 177 mentions a round west tower of 'Saxon' origin as being the part of chief interest in the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… name is Sibertswold, which name it took from the antient Saxon possessor of it. In the record of Domesday it is …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Fee of Goisford de Alselin, 1 who succeeded Tochi, a great Saxon Owner in this County, who was rated before the Conquest …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the spring or stream of Scield, the personal name of some Saxon settler. 7 Near the village the stream formed a line of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was held by Brictric, son of Algar, a prominent Anglo-Saxon thegn. 25 After the Conquest his lands, the later honor …
A History of the County of Surrey
… 16th-century date, and possibly occupies the site of the Saxon aula. This house has a fine chimney, rising from the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and a third on downland south of Park bottom. A Pagan-Saxon long barrow east of the village is unusual because it …