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A History of the County of Leicester
… 1892 North-west Leicester NORTH-WEST LEICESTER In 1956 the boundaries of Leicester included in the north-western section of the city a number of areas which were formerly …
A History of the County of Worcester
… cent.); Abboteley, Abburley (xiv cent.). Abberley is on the road from Cleobury Mortimer to Worcester, which runs … Crown in 1487. 11 It was granted by Henry VIII in 1531 to Walter Walshe, page of the privy chamber, and Elizabeth his … in the chancel is a diminutive recumbent effigy of a knight in armour of circa 1400. The little figure is of a …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Abbots Langley is a long parish running north and south. The northern part is on the Chilterns, and the ground reaches … abbot of St. Albans by the service of a seventh part of a knight's fee, 32 and was a member of the manor of Aston … till his death in 1415, when it passed to John Baylly and Walter Hampton till the death of the Dowager Elizabeth (ibid. …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… (xii and xiii cent.); St. Johns Ripton (xvi cent.). The parish of Abbots Ripton, consisting of 4,191 acres, lies near the centre of the county, and directly north of Huntingdon itself. The land …
Magna Britannia
… Parishes Abbotsham - Aylesbeare Abbotsham ABBOTSHAM, in the hundred of Shebbear and in the deanery of Hartland, lies … Edward II. granted a market at Asperton on Saturdays, to Walter Stapleton, Bishop of Exeter, and a fair for three days … century; afterwards successively to those of Speccot and Walter. It is now the property and seat of John Morth …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Abbodesle, Abbotesley (xiii cent.), Albodesle (xiv cent.). The parish of Abbotsley contains 1,723 acres of land, mostly about 100 ft. above the ordnance datum. The subsoil is Oxford and Ampthill clay. … fees. 8 The manor of Abbotsley, originally held as one knight's fee, was probably granted by David I of Scotland to …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… (xiv cent.); Abbots Aunt, Abbas Aunt (xviii cent.). The parish of Abbotts Ann, which is partly in the hundred of Andover and partly in the hundred of Wherwell, … fourth Marquess of Winchester had leased the manor to Walter Neale of Warnford (co. Hants) for thirtyone years, and …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Abyngeworth (xv cent.). Abinger is a parish bounded on the north by West Horsley and Effingham, on the east by Wotton and Ockley, on the south by the county of … the 13th century Gilbert de Abingworth (Abinger) held one knight's fee in Surrey; 16 his name is also found in a list …
A History of the County of Northampton
… cent.); Abynton, Habinton (xiii-xiv cents.). Since 1900 the civil parish of Abington has ceased to exist, a portion … was held of the Crown in chief for the fourth part of a knight's fee until 1509, after which date the overlordship … the manor was to pass to Alice, Giles's widow, and then to Walter son of Robert de Colevile and to Margaret his wife, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Abington Pigotts ABINGTON PIGOTTS THE parish of Abington Pigotts, 1 once Abington by Shingay, was so named, to distinguish it from the two Abingtons in Chilford hundred, after the family which … 32 of whose honor of Boulogne it was thereafter held as 1 knight's fee. 33 Philip of Abington had been succeeded by …