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A History of the County of Huntingdon
… scattered and is formed into three groups of houses. The church stands surrounded by trees on the road from Huntingdon … 18th century and later. A little to the south-east of the church is a picturesque group of some twenty 17th-century … of a house for the poor, called 'le Almeshouse,' 'next the church there,' and the rent of two capons, amounting to 6 d., …
Magna Britannia
… lies about two miles from Bideford. The manor and church belonged to the abbey of Tavistock; the church was appropriated to the abbey, in 1193: the name of … The vicarage is in the gift of the crown. In the parish church is a monument of John Willett, Esq. lord of the manor, …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… this road, in the middle of the north side of which is the church, with its handsome tower. At the west end is a small … roofs still surviving in the village. South-west of the church is the Manor Farm, around which yet remain fragments … complete homestead moat at Waterloo Farm, south of the church, which possibly indicates the site of the manor house …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 903 the manor of Ann, containing 15 hidas cassatas and a church, is included. 7 Less than half a century later lfsige, … and nuns of Wherwell his lands and mill there. 54 Church The church of ST. MARY THE VIRGIN consists of a chancel 25 ft. by …
A History of the County of Surrey
… 1 to mile from east to west. It contains 7,560 acres. The church is 8 miles south-west of Dorking. Abinger, Wotton, and … Sand rises to over 800 ft. on High Ashes Hill. Abinger Church is 550 ft. above the sea, and is the highest old parish church in Surrey, except Tatsfield. The southern part of the …
A History of the County of Northampton
… present day it is included in the parish of Weston Favell. Church The church of ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL stands within Abington Park … by a single-span roof. Bridges, c. 1720, described the church as consisting of a 'body, north and south ile and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in neighbouring vills. 4 Although Abington had its own church by 1200, it was still c. 1300 reckoned to depend for … others formed a belt of woodland running north from the church and manor house. 7 In 1677 John Pigott, then lord, … covering some 20 a. at Belhus Hill mile north-west of the church, was occupied into the Belgic and the Roman periods, …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… type. A short distance north of the hall is the church of St. Mary, with a large moat beyond, whilst the … at the conclusion of the survey, 9 and the history of the church on Earl Hugh's manor points to the conclusion that … to the maintenance of a chaplain in Skelton chapel. 65 Church The church of ST. MARY was entirely rebuilt in 1876 in …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… VII. and almost close to it, on the north side of the church, about a mile from which stands the parsonage, and a … one carucate. Wood for the pannage of ten hogs, aud a church. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth … to a deed of confirmation of William the Conqueror, to the church of Durham. William Papilion was one of king Edward …
A History of the County of Worcester
… corn-mill. 2 The parish lies on high ground. Between the church and Acton Green a height of 600 ft. is reached, and on … which is at Acton Green, about 1 miles east of the church, at the crossing of the Bromyard and Worcester roads, … According to the Domesday Survey Acton had belonged to the church of St. Mary of Evesham in the reign of Edward the …