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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… four miles to the west, derives its present name from the Saxon Chepe, a market, and Stowe, a town. It obtained also … 5347 inhabitants. During the heptarchy, the South Saxon kings had their residence in this town; and it became …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the Bronze-Age barrows were reused for burial. One Anglo-Saxon burial on a wooden bed with iron fittings had grave …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the railway line crossed Coldhams Lane, which it named Saxon Portland Cement Works, calling the other Norman …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… placed by Ethelfreda under the patronage of the Saxon saint Walmgha, daughter of Wulphere, King of Mercia: … from London, on the road to Leeds. This place, from its Saxon name Ceaster, appears to have been a Roman station; its …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… the absence of orientation probably indicates the pagan Saxon period. [Information from G. Wyman Abbott, Esq., …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… perhaps represented a quarter of the territory of an Anglo-Saxon royal vill spanning the river, from which the other … circles north from the river to enclose the Roman and Saxon settlement that became Cambridge's northern suburb. … of the village, 20 where also were traces of early Anglo-Saxon burials. 21 On the north-western border a greatly …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… and other warlike instruments', possibly indicating pagan Saxon intrusive burials. A further secondary or intrusive …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… intrenchment. It subsequently became the seat of the South Saxon kings, in whose possession the place remained till the … the kingdom of the South Saxons. On the union of the Saxon kingdoms by Egbert, in the year 827, Chichester was of … houses within the walls. On the transfer of the South Saxon see from Selsey, where it had remained for more than …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… ill-drained summit, 66 was heavily wooded in Anglo-Saxon times, when the parish name was probably coined from a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… remained distinct parishes. Saxton, later the hamlet of Saxon Street, was effectively incorporated from the 13th …