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A History of the County of Warwick
… 3,923. Kingsbury is an extensive parish lying mostly to the east of the river Tame, with Bodymoor Heath (inclosed in 1856) and Hemlingford Green, the ancient meeting-place of the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… cent.); Clere (xi cent.); Kyngescler (xiii cent.). In 1831 the parish of Kingsclere, which has been described as ' too healthy to die in and too poor to live in,' covered a far larger area than it …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Parishes Kingsdon KINGSDON The ancient parish of Kingsdon, sometimes known in the 16th and 17th centuries as Kingsdon Cary, 1 had an area given as … Foster, Alumni Oxon.; M.I. in church. S.R.O., D/D/Cm, papers in causes. S.R.S. xlix. 137. S.R.O., D/D/Vc 20; B.M. …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… lies Kingsdown, called in antient records Kingledune, and Kingesdune. 1 This parish is near two miles and a half in … lies among the hills, on high ground in general, the soil of it is mostly very thin and poor, consisting either of … it was desecrated it lay neglected and in ruins, in which state it continued, till a few years ago, when it was totally …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Kingsdown KINGSDOWN LIES next eastward from Milsted, and is usually called Kingsdown, next Sittingborne, to distinguish it from a parish of the same name near Farningham. It is situated obscurely among …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Kingsnoth KINGSNOTH, THE next parish south-eastward is Kingsnoth, sometimes called Kingsnode, and by Leland written Kinges-snode. THIS PARISH is so … with woodlands, especially in the south-east part of it, the whole face of the country here is unpleasant and …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Thorp (xii-xiii cents.); Kyngesthorpe (xiv cent.). In 1900 the greater part of the civil parish of Kingsthorpe was added to the … borough while the remainder was amalgamated with Boughton and Moulton Park, but subsequently, in 1931, the remainder of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… (xi cent.); Kyngestone (xiiixv cent.). Kingston, one of the smallest rural parishes in the Isle of Wight, containing but 900 acres and a population under seventy, is wedged in between the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Parishes Kingston KINGSTON The parish of Kingston, 7 miles west-south-west of Cambridge, … the northern boundary. The Mare Way forms the southern and Porter's Way much of the western boundary. It is …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Kingston KINGSTON LIES the next parish eastward from Bishopsborne, in the upper half hundred of Kinghamford. There is but one borough in it, which extends … hundred. KINGSTON is situated in the same fine healthy and pleasant country of East Kent, the Bourne valley …