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A History of the County of Oxford
… 58 lies 3 miles (4.75 km.) south of Witney and 3 miles east of Bampton, 59 The village, noted for its … important estate centred on Ducklington, and was later a boundary of Standlake. 74 On the east the boundary of Yelford … In fields immediately south-west of Home wood, within the bounds of the probable ancient parish, there are abundant …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… a narrow strip of land which widens at the E. end. Its W. boundary is formed by Watling Street. It lies on undulating land between 95 m. and 145 m. above OD and except in the extreme W. of the parish where Lower Lias …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Vaenor Isav Y Yerbeston YERBESTON, a parish, in the union and hundred of Narberth, county of Pembroke, South Wales, 4 … situated near the turnpike-road from Pembroke to Narberth, and comprises a small extent of land, all inclosed and … this parish from that of Kilybebill, and also forms a boundary between the counties of Brecknock and Glamorgan. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of Stodden, union and county of Bedford, 4 miles (E.) from Higham-Ferrers; … completed, at an expense of 203,530, including a massive boundary wall, 32 feet high, with pierced battlements, … civil and military division of Yorkshire is into three ridings, West, North, and East, the term riding being …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… area (W. of the Ouse), the Central area (between the Ouse and the Foss), and the Walmgate area (E. of the Foss). In the … and still contains the courthouse for the North and East Ridings. For short periods in the 13th and 14th century it … lane of the same size. 19 These extensions of the friary bounds indicate a shifting of the line of Castlegate Postern …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… 1566 1566 15656 HILARY TERM, 8 ELIZABETH. Edward Nettleton and Robert Thorneton Edmund Thwynge, esq., and Margery his wife 16 messuages and 10 cottages in Roksy and Hutton Cranswyke. George Bentley …
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]
… HILARY TERM, 42 ELIZABETH. * Leonard White John Shorte and Johanna his wife 2 messuages in Kingston upon Hull. * Anthony Man William Wentworth, esq., and Ann his wife Messuage in Todcaster and lands in the same. ** Robert Atkinson, esq., Matthew …
Yorkshire Lay Subsidy 30 Ed. I (1301)
A fifteenth granted by Edward I at the Parliament held at Lincoln in spring 1301. It covers the North Riding, one wapentake of the East Riding, and the liberties of St Mary's and St Peter's in York. From the Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, volume 21.
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… union of Crediton, hundred of North Tawton, South Molton and N. divisions of Devon, 8 miles (W. by N.) from Crediton; … 649 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the river Yeo, and comprises 2946 acres, of which 589 are common or waste. … The soil in the southern part is a red fertile loam, and in the northern productive corn land; the surface is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… paper on the subject to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society in 1851 ( Proceed. pp. 95110). … hawk-owl, Egyptian vulture or black stork within the bounds of the county. On comparing the list of birds of … Frome. This district, especially towards the eastern boundary of the county, is a favourite resort of the various …