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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… old inclosure. In the Village are about 18 dwellings. The Church is below description: it is of all others, within and … I ever beheld. One family, I am told, only, goes to the church on the sabbath, which makes a congregation of 4 or 5 … and like the good folk in Cromwell's time, break the church windows: so says Mr. Churchwarden:Gervas Lee, rector, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… site of the earliest settlement, presumably near where the church was built, may have been close to a road leading from … house in the village is a timber-framed house, next to the church, called the Old Manor, although it is apparently not a … over another fireplace. 16 A timberframed cottage near the church, formerly a post office, 17 had been partly demolished …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… doubt to the close proximity of Petersfield. All Saints' church stands on the south side of this road about half a … contains two very fine yew-trees, that on the south of the church being specially notable, even in a district where … in 963, when King Edgar granted land in Ambersham to the church of St. Andrew the Apostle at Meon. 8 It is not …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the ground rises steadily to c. 110 m. at the parish church, reaching c. 150 m. at the western boundary. The … times a year; the catechism was taught regularly. 349 John Eaton, rector 1745 61, claimed 5060 communicants. 350 John … Oxon. i. 413. Sanders, Eng. Baronies, 81. Hist. Colln. Staffs. i. 160. P.R.O., C 139/78/34. V.C.H. Berks. iv. 52. C. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Rayford, to join the road from Middle to Steeple Barton. Church Lane, a hollow way, called Woodstock Way in 1849, 16 runs south from the church along the west side of the Dorn valley. It ends … Com.), ii. 8634. Cal. Pat. 12921301, 509; Hist. Colln. Staffs. ix (1), 102. Feud. Aids, iv. 178. Hist. Colln. …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… above sea-level. The site of the old Hall is close to the church; and the avenue, which gives its name to Avenue Farm, … Dennis together with Avenue Farm, lies eastward from the church. Adjoining a footpath leading northeast from the … to Basil Fitzherbert of Norbury (Derby) and Swinnerton (Staffs); but the manor of Steeple Gidding passed in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… bridge may for long have been that immediately west of the church, called Maskell's from 1592 or earlier. 11 Further … possibly of the Iron Age, 24 and to the south-west Church End ring and Hanging Langford camp were late Iron-Age … in use in 1285, 34 is probably derived from a spire on the church. 35 Like others in the Wylye valley Steeple Langford …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… stood beside a street running north and south past the church. It was called Hay Street from the 13th century to the 19th, 24 when there were c. 30 houses north of the church, while others, almost 40 by the 1860s, were spreading … called by 1800 Cheyneys street, leading east from the church towards the rectory and Cheyneys manor house. At Brook …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Stellinges. The greatest part of it, in which the church stands, is in this hundred of Loning borough, and the … there is no other. A little beyond the minnis stands the church, on an hill, and a little further the court-lodge, at … demesne there is nothing, except one borderer. There is a church. Wood for the pannage of two bags. In the time of king …
A History of the County of Bedford
… of the parish, and is small and compact in appearance. The church, rebuilt in 1860 by the Duke of Bedford and the … commanding position in the centre of the village. The old church was described in 1849 in the Gentleman's Magazine as … above the neighbouring hayricks.' 2 Northeast of the church are the school buildings, built in the same style as …