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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… extremities of the county felt any thing of it. This place, at the time of taking the general survey of Domesday, … lands, which happened about four years afterwards, this place came into the possession of the family of Auberville, … of Chatham, whose son Mr. Thomas Thurston, of that place, attorney-at-law, conveyed it to that learned antiquary …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… antique fittings, including an early-16thcentury fire-place in the hall, were introduced. After 1945 all the … inclosure award of 1815 the rector was allotted 623 a. in place of tithes and received by exchange a farmstead. 233 The …
A History of the County of Durham
… notion of ancient Stockton may be obtained: the long wide 'place' suitable for a market or meeting place with the manor-house closing its southern end, the … Street formed the borough. The ancient staith or landing-place on the river side near the castle has expanded into a …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… or bushy plain, a plain among trees in a park or hunting place ( Kirkby's Inq. [Surt. Soc.], 582). Archbp. Giffard's …
A History of the County of Somerset
… by the early 13th century, 2 implies ownership of a place named Stoke by a lord of whom no post-Conquest trace … where there are traces of possible Iron Age occupation. 12 Place names such as Curdon, associated with a so-called Iron … site beside the middle of these roads, south of the market place, with the medieval vicarage house on its west and the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… A small part of it is within the hundred of Shamel. This place, as appears by the Textus Roffensis, was called … Ealdulf, bishop of it, in the district called Hohg, at a place there called Andscohesham, containing, by estimation, … the present owner, being Baldwin Duppa Duppa, esq. of that place. Sir John Malmeyns, of this parish, in 1303, made his …
A History of the County of Worcester
… 5 There are disused quarries in the south-west. Among place names found in the parish are Doriebruggesfield, … Crofts to the Hackluits, for John Croft leased his 'Hall Place of Little Kyre' to John Borrall in 1528, 61 and in 1564 …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Value. Here was a Family which took their Name from this Place, of which I find several, but cannot give an exact … to be the abode of pigeons and sparrows. We learn, in this place, that James Banks, of Nottingham, Esq. who died in … York, while Henry was advancing to Nottingham. At this place he discovered the Earl of Lincolne's design to march to …