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A History of the County of Worcester
… Tredington, and was born there in 171314. 9 The following place-names occur in the 14th century: Bithelongesithers, … a later rebuilding. Several restorations have taken place during the past century, the last and most extensive … Pat. 17 Jas. I, pt. vi; Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). The sale took place in 1702 (Feet of F. Worcs. East. 1 Anne), but Sir Henry …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Robert Taundy, who held a freehold estate called Taundy's Place, parcel of Warwick's land, in 1488 78 and 1529. 79 John … died in 1597 holding both Tredington farm and Taundy's Place, and his son and heir Thomas, 80 who in the same year … in 1327. 99 In the 15th century an estate called Stephen's Place was used to provide a rent-free home for a servant of …
A History of the County of Hertford
… and there is a station on it called Marston Gate, a place which was formerly noted for cock-fights. This spot was … the Icknield Way, and coins at Cowroast Inn. Among ancient place-names are Lechewood, Lythtening Bushes, Lyethewood, … to pasture by Sir Robert Whittingham, who built the said place at the west end there as the town sometimes stood, for …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… situation, quasi Trodes-clif, i e. the hilly tract, this place being close at the foot of the great chalk hills, which … survey of Domesday, taken about the year 1080, this place is thus described, under the title of the bishop of … after which there was an episcopal palace erected at this place, the buildings of which were grown so ruinous when …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… . . . often overflowed'. Powers were therefore acquired to place under a single turnpike trust the roads from Seend to … Trowbridge to Midford (Som.), and to reconstruct and to place under the same trustees the roads from Trowbridge to … Trowle. 41 Today (1949) there are two distinct groups of place-names in which the word Trowle is included. Trowle …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… took the north chapel from the 1570s as their burial place, inserting tablets into the Trumpington tomb chest. 582 … a bell and obtained an early 17th-century pulpit, still in place in 1980, from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 586 About …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… or chapell yet remayneth, & ther by in a wood was a manor place now clene downe. It longethe now as a ferme to Magdalen … wych elm 36 ft. in circumference; it was once a gathering place for Maytime dances and is the 'Fyfield elm' of Matthew … Tubney, being the eldest son of Richard Stonhouse of this place. 10 Manor TUBNEY seems to have been included in the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Rossensis, THUDELEI. It is a very obscure and unfrequented place, lying between the parishes of Tunbridge and Capel. The … is situated in a very wet and unpleasant country. THIS PLACE was part of those vast possessions, with which William …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… in the Saxon language signifying a hill, and Stealle, a place. Indeed this seems to have been its original name, and … The family of Hales was originally seated at Hales-place, in Halden, whence they were usually called at-Hale. … John Hales abovementioned, the eldest son, was of Hales-place, whose son Henry married Julian, daughter and heir of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The following place-names in Tunworth occur in a document of the early 17th …