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A History of the County of Berkshire
… 22 Sonning appears to have been the seat of a bishopric in Saxon times, 23 and there was a residence there of the … 125 was held in the time of King Edward the Confessor by a Saxon thegn named Don. Before the Great Survey it had been …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Hundred 8) was originally an ancient demesne of the Saxon kings and was mentioned in the will of King Alfred of …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the built-up west doorway of the original nave, possibly Saxon in origin. The semicircular head is unmoulded and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the parish. 18 The name Newington implies that the Anglo-Saxon village was settled later than some of its neighbours, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Stoford, and Chilhampton: each stands on gravel, 3 bears a Saxon name, 4 and had a strip of land extending from the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… 12 If the present settlement is more obviously of Saxon origin, yet its character is by no means uniform … SOUTH PETHERTON, probably a longstanding possession of the Saxon royal house, still belonged to the Crown in 1066 and … of the 17th and 18th centuries. Alward, evidently a Saxon, held T.R.E. an estate later known as the manor of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Beds, which is a mixture of sand and plastic clay. 4 Since Saxon times there have probably been two townships: Stoke to …
A History of the County of Essex
… 10 Apart from the earthworks there is no evidence of pre-Saxon settlement. As late as 1086 the only settlements seem …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Adwell House. 87 Agrarian and Social History. Anglo-Saxon settlers gave the village its name, perhaps to … growing wheat and other crops, and although no pre-Anglo-Saxon remains have been found it is unlikely that this area … P.N. Oxon. i (E.P.N.S.), 99. Ibid. 99100; cf. Grundy, Saxon Oxon. 59. V.C.H. Oxon. i. 409; cf. Rot. Hund. (Rec. …