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Survey of London
… Winchester House and Park CHAPTER 6: WINCHESTER HOUSE AND PARK Early in the 12th century the Abbey of Bermondsey … indicated by dotted lines on the plan but there were no signs of worked ashlar. The upper floors of the building were …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Winchester Fairs and trades EARLY HISTORY THE FAIR OF ST. GILES Winchester, … foot of St. Giles Down, near but not too near the coast and served by ancient roads, was predestined for the haunt of … paid their 2 marks of gold (12). 73 There are early signs of the oppression of the weavers and fullers, probably …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… chalk down-land. Roman roads approach it from all sides, and the Itchen while navigable brought it into touch with Southampton, and so with the centres of continental trade. The present … the importance of the mint and money exchange and other signs of prosperity, suggests that the ruinous state of the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … the Exchequer and the Crown, and the outward and visible signs of this were the granting of the city at fee farm, the …
A Dictionary of London
… Mill Alley West out of Minories. In Portsoken Ward (O. and M. 1677). Site now occupied by offices and business houses. Name derived from the sign, or perhaps … Court. Windillow's Court In Blackfriars (Strype, ed. 1755, and Boyle, 1799). "Windelow's Court " in Dodsley, 1761. Not …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The romantic legends told by Froissart of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table at Windsor lack the … early history of Windsor which were current in the 14th and 15th centuries. 1 During the Saxon period, when Edward … 2 the site of the later castle formed part of Clewer and was probably forest. On the eve of the Norman Conquest …
Survey of London Monograph
… 930), but since then the succession has been maintained and Windsor is now one of the six heralds in ordinary. Badge: … news of the battle of Auray, fought on 29 September 1364, and whom King Edward forthwith appointed Windsor herald ( … confirmed 1379, pat. 3 Ric. II, p. 1, m. 10, 3 August, and payment recorded in Issue Rolls passim down to Easter, 3 …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… The whole of the S. two-thirds of the parish is on Chalk and slopes gently N. from about 500 ft. to 150 ft. above O.D. … N. Beyond the Chalk are narrow outcrops of Reading Beds and London Clay which in turn give way to extensive heathland on Bagshot Beds and River Gravels and not rising above 170 ft. Until recent …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… lies across the valley of the South Winterborne, and slopes up onto the S. Dorset Ridgeway to a height of … Winterborne Came, now only represented by Came House, and Cripton, on the site of the present Came Home Farm. Each … parish which included the modern parish of Herringston and from the 17th century until the 19th century both were …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… across the Winterborne valley at altitudes between 250 ft. and 600 ft. above sea-level; it formerly included some 60 … the river appear to represent three separate villages and manors. Philipston, in the N., lay around the present … by the present Manor House; Nicholson was sited near and to the S. of St. Nicholas's Church. In 1340 Nicholson and …