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Old and New London
… of the same whirlwind, which gradually blew over the whole land, until, in the spring of the year 1540, all the monastic … of La Charit, on the Loire, made their new home in the land of their adoption. "The Cluniacs," says Mr. A. Wood in … Morton mentioned in Domesday Book as possessing "a hide of land" in this parish, on which, it appears from another part …
Old and New London
… their respective histories. The name Bermondseythe "land of leather," as it has been called in our own dayis … of the late Mr. John Webbe Weston, who owned much of the land hereabouts. Winding south-westwards across some of these … the reign of Edward I. three water-mills, three acres of land, one acre of meadow, and twenty acres of pasture, at …
Berrick Salome
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… was granted to Canterbury cathedral priory. 3 A separate land grant in 996, possibly relating to an area in the … it may have once formed part of a longer route, 21 and land adjoining was called Bury closes, perhaps recalling a … (and later vicar) of Chalgrove. Around half the parish's land was still under non-collegiate ownership in the 1830s. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… lease of the manor-house and demesnes of Shripney, and of land called Heyghwood, for twenty years following on the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Monkton followed that of furlongs in open-field land; 9 boundary stones were standing on part of the zig-zag … extreme east. 11 Both east and west of the head stream the land rises to the parish boundary, reaching 271 m. in the … the parish, and 187 m. in the west; in the centre the land is at 160 m. There were open fields in the east and west …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… to obtain a supply of money for his expedition to the Holy Land, sold the vassalage of Scotland for 10,000 marks, and … in 1814. A considerable part of the corporation land is allotted into "meadows" and "stints," and given … breed of black-cattle, and has fertile vales of arable land, yielding abundant crops. The highest hills are in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The parish comprises 1320 acres of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; and is intersected by the … stretches on the east; it comprises about 1230 acres of land, the property of Harrington Hudson, Esq., who is lord of … Norton, and the river Tern here separates the county from Staffordshire. The tithes have been commuted for 123, payable …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… about 33 E. 1, held one toft there, and two bovats of Land, with the appurtenances, by the service of being …
Survey of London
… and Treasurer reported that they had viewed "certain land lying in St. George's Fields being the site lately … 1810 an agreement was signed whereby, in exchange for the land in Moorfields, the City Corporation granted 11 acres of … for the new building, but the remainder, together with any land not required by the institution, were included in the …