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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… at Wadenhall. He left two sons, Nicholas, of Hauts-place, in the adjoining parish of Petham, and William, who … in his descendants down to Sir William Haut, of that place, who in Henry VIII.'s reign, leaving two daughters his …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Farm, but have been removed to Bracknell. Interesting place-names are Waycock Hill, Blazes (a corruption of … at BILLINGBEAR (Pillingbere) in Waltham St. Lawrence. This place is first mentioned in the 13th century and later is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… kept by a stone cutter's wife in 1861. 378 Ekwall, Eng. Place-names, 495. This article was completed in 1998. B.L. …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Coway Stakes Ford has been often taken to be the place where Caesar crossed the Thames on his second invasion. … Hughes. 60 Early in the reign of Henry VIII a quarrel took place between certain fishermen of Walton and Giles Leigh, …
A History of the County of Surrey
… of glass and metal. Further digging on the spot took place in 1808, 3 resulting in the discovery of part of the … some inclosure of common fields and waste has taken place. The names in the register and churchwardens' accounts … of much earlier date, and marks the site of the dwelling-place of the Domesday lord of the manor. 49 The first …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the stream known as the Lidd in Wanborough Marsh. 29 Hall Place, the home of the Polton family at the beginning of the … village until the 19th century. 174 The Poltons of Hall Place were also, evidently, a family of importance. 175 By … premises at Kite Hill the first meeting of Methodists took place in the village. 207 Thomas Honeybone (d. 1796), …
A History of the County of Surrey
… into the Thames. The stream is probably named from the place, not the place from the stream, as is generally supposed. Wendel was … members of the company and also Mount Nod, the burying-place of many Huguenots, 4 and the workhouse of the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 3 There is no doubt, however, of the importance of the place in Saxon times. Its name is supposed to have been … grant to Fulk Fitz Warin. 10 It consists of a large market-place, to which converge streets named according to their … Farringdon Street or Mill Street, north-west. The market-place was mentioned in 1284, when the justices in eyre …