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A History of the County of Surrey
… Contone (xi cent.). Compton parish, 2 miles north-west of Godalming, 4 miles west by south of Guildford, is about 2 miles from north to south, 1 miles from east to west, and contains 1,995 acres. The northern part of the parish extends over the narrow chalk …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Compton COMPTON Cuntone (xi cent.); Cumyngton (xvi cent.). The Roman road from Winchester to Southampton running … parallel with the Itchen cuts through the whole length of the eastern part of Compton parish. On either side of the … Compton Down on the right just outside Winchester and Shawford Down on the left beyond Compton village, which …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Comtone, Cumpton, Comthon (xiii cent.); Compton Parva. The parish of Compton, which gives its name to the hundred of Compton, … of which 2,586 acres are arable land, 742 permanent grass and 49 woods and plantations. 1 The soil is chalk and flint, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… ABDALE Compton Abdale, a small rural parish 12.5 km. ESE. of Cheltenham, was often known as Great Compton (or Compton … 'Abdale', which was recorded from the early 16th century 2 and eventually became the established form, is unknown. In … Glos. R.O., D 1878, deed 14 Jan. 1812. Ibid. Rectory fm. papers 187980, letter 20 Mar. 1878; G.D.R., T 1/61. Bristol …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… 1,811 acres, lying in a long strip from the northern edge of the downs to the low-lying meadows of the Vale of the … The parish is traversed by the Ridgway along the down and by the parallel Portway or Icknield Street 3 half-way … John Borne, kt., one of the two principal Secretaries of State, who with William Lacy was then authorized to alienate …
A History of the County of Somerset
… COMPTON DUNDON The ancient parish lies at the eastern end of King's Sedgemoor between Street and Somerton and includes … ale for their Compton Dundon court. 334 Court rolls and papers survive for 13879, 335 14469, 1468, 14759, 14921501, … saleable. In 1822 a committee was set up to examine the state of the poor in the parish, and in 1824 a select vestry …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Acreage: 1,668. Population: 1911, 42; 1921, 85; 1931, 56. The north-western boundary of the parish is formed by the Roman Fosse Way, which is … lie the extensive grounds surrounding Compton Verney House and the church. The house is a fine stone building in the …
A History of the County of Warwick
… from north-west to south-east with an average breadth of mile, between Tysoe on the east and Whatcote and Brailes on the west. The country is …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… is a small and remote parish lying on an exposed slope of the Cotswolds three miles northwest of Stow-on-the-Wold. … The activity of the overseers is recorded in 5 settlement papers of the late 18th century and early 19th century. 230 … 30 pupils, who paid 2 d. a week. 308 The school received a state grant from 1877. 309 By 1906 attendance had risen to …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… (xi cent.); Cunyngton, Conington (xiii, xiv cent.). The parish of Conington lies on the west side of the Fen and the greater part adjoins the Fen district, where the land …