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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… VIII (1529-47) ANNO 21 HENRY VIII. Monday the Feast of S. Lucia, Virgin [13 Dec.]. Hyll (Henry),"haberdassher."To the Dean and Chapter of S. Paul's an annual rent of twenty marks, and penalty of one hundred …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… united to the rectory of Hockwold, and valued in the king's books at 6. 7. 6. The church is in the decorated and later … hundred of Chewton, E. division of Somerset, 8 miles (S. W.) from Bath; containing 1480 inhabitants. Wilton (St. … Downs, being those to the north of the Kennet and Avon canal, and Salisbury Downs or Plain, consisting of nearly all …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Wimborne St. Giles 23 WIMBORNE ST. GILES (0311) (O.S. 6 ins., SU 00 NW, SU 00 NE, SU 01 SW, SU 01 SE, SU 01 NW) … roughly L-shaped strip from the E. Dorset heathland in the S.E., north-westwards to Cranborne Chase. The central and … extends to the W. Of three mounds (032114) beside the canal which joins the lake to the grotto (6), two are 15 ft. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… Wimpole 37 WIMPOLE (O.S. 6 ins. aTL 35 S.W., bTL 35 S.E., cTL 34 N.W., dTL 34 N.E.) The parish of Wimpole, 2468 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Somerset, 34 miles (E.) from Taunton, and 108 (W. by S.) from London; containing 2296 inhabitants. This place, … vicinity of this town; in which, according to Burnet's History of his own Times, was shed the first blood in the … station for one officer and 12 men. The Royal Military canal commences at Cliff-End, and passes by the town parallel …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… provides, are that fourteen of the burgesses paid 25 s. to the abbey of Romsey, 9 that the abbey of Wherwell held … inhabitants of the suburb of Winchester used to pay 12 s. 11 d. to the king as of his manor of Basingstoke. 11 The … of the Cannell.' No dust or filth was to be swept into the canal and every alderman was weekly to view the making clean …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… ( St. German), a parish, in the union of Patrington, S. division of the wapentake of Holderness, E. riding of York, 9 miles (E. S. E.) from Hedon; containing 139 inhabitants. The parish is … pasture, 1520 arable, and 80 woodland. The Grand Junction canal, and the London and Birmingham railway, run along the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a little wood. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 28, and in the gift of the Rev. T. F. R. Read, … wapentake of Staincross, W. riding of York, 5 miles (S. E. by E.) from Wakefield; containing 167 inhabitants. It … inhabitants. The parish is intersected by the Grand Union canal, and comprises by measurement 2011 acres, about 300 of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… with the Nene. Corporation Seal. From the date of Wulfhere's charter, little is recorded of the history of the place … is 56, and their aggregate burthen 5200 tons. In 1794, a canal was cut from the river at Wisbech to the Old Nene at Outwell, and thence to the Ouse at Salter's Lode Sluice, opening a way to Norfolk and Suffolk. An act …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the inclusion (from Wisbech Borough) of the hamlet of Ring's End, on the Nene opposite Guyhirn. Although it is … practically adjoins Wisbech. It is divided by the Wisbech Canal, formerly the Well Stream, into Elm High and Elm Low … At the later date the total rents amounted to 45 5 s. 6 d. 18 As usual in the 14th century, a decline in …