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A History of the County of Hertford
… 8,479 acres. The urban part lies at the eastern end, east of the New River, which flows through the parish; the rural … 'A most stately house,' he says, . . . . 'To speak of the state and beauty thereof as large as it deserveth, for … 23. Cal. S. P. Dom. 16601, p. 523; 16634, p. 502. Stuart Papers (Hist. MSS. Com.), i, 2. G.E.C. Complete Peerage, i, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… next adjoining parish eastward from Bromley; a small part of it lying near Foot's Cray, is in the hundred of … among the woods. Chesilhurst is one of the most pleasant and healthy parishes among the many that lie within the … famous statesman, Sir Francis Walsingham, secretary of state to queen Elizabeth, who died in 1590, having married, …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Parishes Chessington CHESSINGTON Cisendene and Cisedune (xi cent.), Chissendon (xii cent.), Chesinden … 3 miles south from Surbiton Station, and 2 miles west of Ewell. The parish, which is a chapelry to Malden, measures 3 miles …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Chesterton CHESTERTON The parish formerly covered an area of about 2,527 acres, of which 188 were detached from the … or so the vicar said, as much as it did in its original state. Moreover, it was little used, as the miller was … in the Medieval Church', Assoc. Archit. Soc. Rep. and Papers, xxxiv. 67. Kennett, Paroch. Antiq. ii. 203. Cal. …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Cestreton (xii cent.); Chesterton (xiv cent.). The parish of Chesterton contains 1,349 acres of land and lies to the south of the River Nene, which separates it … Inq. Hen. VII, i, no. 1086; the place-name appears in the calendar as Desterton. G.E.C. Complete Peerage, vii, 309. …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 3,585. Population: 1911, 130; 1921, 152; 1931, 135. The parish forms a roughly rectangular block, nearly 4 miles in length from north-west to south-east and 2 miles broad. On the south-west its boundary is for the … a small stream. Parallel with this stream and mile east of it the Roman Fosse Way cuts across the parish, passing, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… NORTHWESTWARD from Sevenoke lies CHEVENING, a small part of which is in the hundred of Somerden. Chevening House THE … be surveyed and sold, to supply the necessities of the state. Accordingly, in 1652, the manor of Chevening was … this manor is most of it taken from the late lord Dacre's papers. See more of the Lennards and Dacres family under …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Chicklade CHICKLADE Chicklade village is 11 km. SSE. of Warminster, 9 km. ENE. of Mere, and 19 km. WNW. of Wilton but separated from all three by … 1 Like its eastern neighbour Berwick St. Leonard, the parish reached from the northern tributary of the Nadder …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Twenty-eight different spellings are found. The parish of Chiddingfold lies between Haslemere and Witley on the west, Godalming and Hambledon on the north, … de Chudyngfold, and complaints were constant of the bad state of repair or the flooding of the via regia, the road, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… called in the Textus Roffensis, CIDINGSTANE. THE PARISH OF CHIDINGSTONE lies below the sand hills, and consequently in the district called the Weald. It is … within this diocese, taken in 1650, by order of the state, issuing out of chancery, it was returned, that in …