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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… once grown plentifully in the neighbourhood, and wic, a Saxon word signifying village: West appears to have been …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Chester, and who held also a manor here, once owned by a Saxon named Ulmer. Part of the Warren mountain, in the … parts of the townships. That remarkable monument of Saxon industry, Clawdd Offa, or Offa's Dyke, passes in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (W. by S.) from Skipton; containing 407 inhabitants. The Saxon name of this place, implying a fortified town, bears …
Broughton Poggs Parish
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… Broughton was first separated from the large late Anglo-Saxon estate of Broadwell and Langford before the Norman … the south of the villa. 4 A late 5th or 6th-century Anglo-Saxon inhumation cemetery was discovered during … with mounds. 5 No other archaeological evidence of Anglo-Saxon occupation has yet been found, but by the mid 11th …
A History of the County of Somerset
… from Creech Hill in Lamyatt has been postulated. 34 A Saxon sword was found in 1984 on Sheephouse farm in the east of the parish. 35 The Saxon origin of the town probably derives from the religious … silk factories, one in Quaperlake Street, and J. and S. Saxon, formerly tenants of Theophilus Perceval, occupied one …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… has its rise under Wulphere Church, so designated from the Saxon chieftain of that name, whose stronghold was Hembury … the remains of two encampments supposed to be either of Saxon or Danish origin, the larger of which, called Hembury … and is supposed to have derived its name from the Saxon Bucca, a "stag" or "buck," ing, a "meadow," and ham, a …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… its own poor; and containing 826 inhabitants. During the Saxon era this place was called Butdigingtune, and is … at length made an attempt to force their way through the Saxon army, when a dreadful carnage ensued, in which most of …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… became, in succession, the stronghold of the Roman, the Saxon, and the Norman. Coins, and other relics of their arts, … tenure of the former race; within whose massy ramparts the Saxon fixed his dwellingcalled it his Burgh in the goodly … was evidently a place of some consideration during the Saxon era, it increased rapidly in population and wealth …