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A History of the County of Stafford
… 1066 held his land as a riding man, an office of Anglo-Saxon origin which normally involved escort duty and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… its patronal festival on 29 October in 1998. 18 ANGLO-SAXON CHURCH If, as the Life of St. Modwen implies, there was an Anglo-Saxon chapel dedicated to St. Andrew on Andresey, it is … on the west bank of the Trent by Wulfric Spot, an Anglo-Saxon nobleman, by a will dated between 1002 and 1004 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was no settlement at Burton itself until the early Anglo-Saxon period. A minster church was refounded as a monastery … to exist in the early AngloSaxon period. 15 ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD Several times between 666 and 669 Wilfrid, the … The disturbed pattern of land ownership in the late Anglo-Saxon period meant that Burton abbey did not retain an area …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… members of the family of Stapleton, with inscriptions in Saxon characters. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… were discovered. A secondary inhumation, perhaps Saxon, was also found. (Fox, A.C.R., 326, No. 15) Since … (around TL 59016651), found during the excavation of the Saxon cemetery (131) in 1927 and 1928, is 500 yds. N. of Burwell church on chalk at 60 ft. above O.D. Below the Saxon graves was found a pit, 12 ft. deep and 22 ft. in …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Exning, to enter the New River at its east end. 9 An Anglo-Saxon fort which probably gave the village the name, 'spring … in 1928 may have come, may have stood close to an Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered c. 1885 near clunchpits east of the … stood just north-east of the oval. 39 Possible late Anglo-Saxon settlement in Spring close just to the west was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Norman survey, this place, then the property of Ulluric, a Saxon free-man, was exempted, and is consequently unnoticed … site of a Roman station, and subsequently that of a royal Saxon ville, the summer retreat of Edwin the Great, where … and on the banks of the Derwent, are still vestiges of the Saxon ville; and those of an old castle erected on an …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Clarke, author of a work on the connexion of the Roman, Saxon, and English coins, and his son Edward, who published …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to flourish to such an extent, that, at the time of the Saxon invasion, its college is said to have contained, among … Dr. Stukeley, however, derives the prefix from the Saxon thegn, a thane or nobleman. The marriage of Rowena, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… to this place, Canobie being probably derived from the Saxon Bie, or By, signifying "a station," and thus …