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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… smell, procured in central Asia from Narthex asafoetida and other allied umbelliferous plants. It was used in … an antispasmodic and as a flavouring. It was included in the Materia Medica, which offers no English alternative to … [Agricola (1556, modern ed. 1950)] are given in the History of Technology [Singer et al. (1957)]. OED earliest …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Ashbury (St. Mary) ASHBURY ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Farringdon, hundred of Shrivenham, county of Berks, 6 … from Lambourn; containing, with the tythings of Idstone and Odstone, and the hamlet of Kingstone-Winslow, 819 …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… Ashby Ashby, or Haskeby, lies near the centre of the island of Lothingland, and contains 1045 acres. It is not recorded by name in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Ashcombe - Ashill Ashcombe ASHCOMBE, a parish, in the union of St. Thomas, hundred of Exminster, Wonford and S. divisions of Devon, 2 miles (E.) from Chudleigh; …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Ashcott TOPOGRAPHY Ashcott takes its name from the woodland which probably once covered the eastern part of the Poldens. 1 It lies 7 km. south-west of Glastonbury and includes Ashcott village and the hamlets of Pedwell, … during the minority of Thomas's son Richard. 14 The later history of the estate is unknown. Glastonbury abbey acquired …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Ashendon hundred Introduction THE HUNDRED OF ASHENDON Containing The Parishes Of Ashendon; … Quarrendon; Shabbington; Towersey; Waddesdon with Westcott and Woodham Cott and Woodham; Lower or Nether Winchendon; … Westcott and Woodham are not found in the Domesday Survey. Towersey occurs as Eie, and Boarstall, Kingsey and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) ASHINGDON ( St. Andrew), a parish, in the union and hundred of Rochford, S. division of Essex, 2 miles (N. by … figures, which admit a conjecture that they refer to the history of St. Vincent, who was burnt alive at Valentia, in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… c.1875 Ashington 1 lies 2 miles (3.2 km.) north of the north face of the South Downs, and 10 miles (16 km.) south of Horsham. The ancient parish … 936 ha. (2,313 a.). 10 The present article deals with the history of the ancient parish until 1816, the date of the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Ashington Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY. Both Ashington and Buncton manors had demesne farms in 1086. 76 That of … lease in 1622. 78 Blackland (later Brownhill) farm in the more northerly of the two larger detached parts of the …