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A History of the County of Gloucester
… Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. In 1086 2 plough-teams and 4 servi were employed on the demesne of William son of Baderon's Westonbirt estate. 40 There were 1 team and 7 servi on the demesne of Lasborough manor. 41 For the … a. of arable, 1,111 a. of permanent grass, and 220 a. of woods and plantations. 95 In 1974 the 600-a. Westonbirt …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… parish, had become depopulated by the late 14th century and by the mid 17th had been united for civil purposes with Westonbirt. 1 Lasborough remained a separate manor and ecclesiastical parish although the benefices were united … north-east, an old road from Tetbury on the north-west, and the old Westonbirt-Leighterton road and the Sherbourne …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at 9.17., and in the gift of the Executors of the late J. Everitt, … Penyston. The great tithes have been commuted for 355, and the vicarial for 260; the glebe comprises 32 acres. There … parish of Drayton, union of Langport, hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, W. division of Somerset; containing 12 …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Cary, since displaced by the King's Sedgemoor Drain, and Parrett. 6 The parish includes the village, the hamlets of Bussex and Liney to the north and north-east, and settlements at Andersea, Ham or Hamland, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… townships of Great Corby, Coathill, Cumwhinton, Scotby, and WarwickBridge, 2806 inhabitants, of whom 586 are in … township, 5 miles (E. by S.) from Carlisle. The Newcastle and Carlisle railway passes through the parish, and is here … arable, 361 meadow and pasture, 143 garden-ground, 137 in woods and plantations, 63 in hop-grounds, and 110 road and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… (d)xvi. S.W. (e)xxv. N.W.) Wethersfield is a large parish and village about 6 m. N.W. of Braintree. The Church, Great Codham Hall, and the desecrated Chapel (4) are the principal monuments. … on the S. side of the village. The walls are of flint and pebble rubble with some brick; the dressings are of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wexham 98. … N.E. of Slough, is built of flint, with some pudding-stone and clunch in the walls of the chancel; the E. angles are of clunch and the original quoins of the nave of brown stone. The S. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… coterminous with the municipal borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, lies on the W. side of Weymouth Bay; it extends 6 miles N.S. and 5 miles E.W. covering some 11 square miles. The parish incorporates the twin towns of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis which lie S. and N. of the harbour at the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Whaddon 220. … roofs are covered with lead, except those of the chancel and N. chapel which are tiled. Part of the walls of the Nave … in the 12th century; c. 1190 a North Aisle was added, and the N. wall of the nave pierced by an arcade of three …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… prior to the time of Henry III., by Ralph Martel, and at the Dissolution had a revenue of 24. The prior, in … secretary, was frequently here. It was purchased and occupied about a century ago by Browne Willis, the … a deep ravine, the sides of which are clothed with thick woods; it is an ancient structure, chiefly in the later …