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Old and New London
… added that, as the parish church has been dedicated from Saxon times to St. Giles, the especial patron of cripples, it … of meadow-land, and, as we have said, a church. In the Saxon times there was but one manor here, which was held of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Grantan-brycge, Grantabricge, or Grante-brige, of the Saxon Chronicle, signifying "the Bridge over the Granta," the … the river Cam: by the substitution of cognate letters, the Saxon compound was altered after the Norman Conquest to … Ely was held against William the Conqueror, by the Anglo-Saxon prelates and nobles, William built a castle at …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… 24. Physiographical Map Showing Iron Age, Roman and Saxon Remains in and Near Cambridge The suggestion 25 made … and barbaric, though politically complex, affairs. ANGLO-SAXON 'CAMBRIDGE' The Pagan Period c. A.D. 450650 When we … perhaps 50 years later, the occupants are 'Anglo-Saxon' invaders who have apparently replaced them. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This place, supposed to have been the Guffelford of the Saxon Chronicle, takes its name from a ford on the river … Mercians and the West Saxons. In 689, a congress of the Saxon chiefs, confederated for the conquest of Britain, was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Canewdon Hall about 1712, may have been either Roman or Saxon. (For the tiles, B. A. A., IV (1849), 74. For the urns, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… was a settlement from the 1st to the 4th century. 13 The Saxon 'herpath' entered the parish via the Parrett crossing …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and Williton through ownership of both by the West Saxon royal house from the time of King Alfred if not …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… deduced. Arms. Canterbury was the metropolis of the Saxon kingdom of Kent, and the residence of its kings, of … of it, was probably built by the Conqueror, to keep his Saxon subjects in awe: the remains now visible are evidently … Somner, author of the Antiquities of Canterbury, and of a Saxon Glossary; and W. Frend, M.A., author of the Ephemeris. …
Old and New London
… to South Wales. The name, according to Leland, is from the Saxon athelinga noble street. At the north-west end of it is …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… his leisure hours in collecting antient coins, British, Saxon, and English, as well as Greek and Roman; of which he …