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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… CERNE Draycot Cerne c. 1839 Draycot Cerne 1 is 5 km. NNE. of Chippenham. 2 The suffix Cerne is derived from the surname of the lords of … c. 90 a., between the eastern boundary of Sutton Benger and the west bank of the Bristol Avon, called Draycot Sutton …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Parishes Draycot Foliat DRAYCOT FOLIAT The ancient parish of Draycot Foliat lies 1 mile from Chiseldon village … immediately below the scarp of the Marlborough Downs, and is surrounded on the east, north, and west by the modern … 1634 John Evered alias Webb of Draycot Foliat emigrated to America and in 1659 was granted a substantial holding on the …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… cent.); Drayton (xiiixx cent.). Drayton was a dependency of St. Helen's, until 1867, when it was made an ecclesiastical parish. 1 The ecclesiastical and civil parishes are conterminous, the area being 1,851 … lord of the manor was allowed to fill the vacancies. Parl. Papers (1872), xlvi, no. 227, p. 12. Inform. from Lady …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Drayton DRAYTON This small and narrow parish lies in the Oxfordshire wolds some 2 miles north-west of Banbury. 1 In 1881 it covered 926 a. and in 1932, after a … were 42 houses and by 1868 these were mostly in a bad state. 17 Thereafter there was a decline until the expansion …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… (xiii cent.); Druton Bechame (xvi cent.). The parish of Drayton Beauchamp covers an area of 1,319 acres, of which 696 are arable land, 327 permanent grass, and 22 woods and plantations. 1 It is about 5 miles long and … arrested in the following year and his manors, books and papers seized, 30 being doubtless suspected of Lollardy as …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… Passelewe (xiv cent.); Draighton Perselow (xvii cent.). The parish of Drayton Parslow covers an area of 1,749 acres, comprising … 377 acres of arable land, 1,243 acres of permanent grass, and 15 acres of woods and plantations. 1 The subsoil is of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… area was slightly increased in the 1870's as a consequence of the Divided Parishes Acts (18761882), and was given in the … tracery removed to simplify glazing, the roof was in a bad state and the plaster ceiling was ready to fall. As a result … d.d. Par. Grt. Haseley d 2 (17). Ibid. Stonor Letters and Papers, ii. (Cam. Soc. 3rd. ser. xxx), 8182. d.d. Par. Grt. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Drocheneford (xi cent.); Drokenesford (xiv to xv cents.). The parish of Droxford lies in the Meon valley, the River Meon, which here runs due north and south, flowing just within its eastern boundary for …
A History of the County of Worcester
… cent.); Duddelge (xii cent.). Dudley forms a detached part of Worcestershire lying in the county of Stafford on the … of the castle in 1646 accounts largely for the ruinous state of the keep, main gateway, and wall of enceinte. The … pt. i, m. 15. This charter does not appear in the printed Calendar of Charter Rolls. Cal. Close, 12729, p. 214. Worc. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Dullingham DULLINGHAM The parish of Dullingham, 1 covering 3, 387 a., 2 lies 10 miles east of … whole church was repaired c. 1728, 381 and was in a decent state in 1783. 382 Christopher Jeaffreson (d. 1749) spent 300 … C.R.O., L 86/109110; R 51/25/26D; Clare Coll. Mun., estate papers. Cf. B.L. Maps 136. a. 4(4). C.R.O., L 89/113. Kelly's …