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A History of the County of Worcester
… lies in a district unpenetrated by railways, 3 miles north of Knightwick station on the Worcester and Bromyard branch of … of similar design to that opposite, but is in a less good state of preservation; the shafts are original, but the bases … to the grammar school of Stourbridge ( Parl. Accts. and Papers, 1887, lxiv). Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxxii, 142. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Parishes Martock MARTOCK The ancient parish of Martock, with ten tithings, is one of … 5 miles north of Crewkerne, 3 miles south of Somerton, and 4 miles south-west of Ilchester. Probably in origin a …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Martun, Martune, Martona (xi cent.); Marton (xii cent.). The parish of Marton lies south of Middlesbrough, covering an area of … Keuper marls. The arable land, where wheat, barley, beans and oats are grown, amounts to 1,247 acres, the pasture to …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 1911, 376; 1921, 392; 1931, 379. Marton is a small parish and village 7 miles northeast of Leamington Spa. The north and west boundaries of the parish are respectively …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Molscebi (xi cent.); Molesby (till xvi cent.). The parish of Marton with Moxby or Marton in the Forest is on the … the gradual reclaiming of the land from its wild moorland state, in which it was the hunting ground of the king's deer, … near Moxby Priory. 1 Now that the forest no longer exists and the land is inclosed, two-thirds of the total area of the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Wurdia la Martre, Wordia, Worthi Martre (xiii cent.). The parish of Martyr Worthy cum Chilland covers about 2,060 acres, … area 1,438 acres are arable land, 400 are permanent grass, and 220 are woodland. 1 The north of the parish, through the …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… (xiii cent.); Massam (xvi cent.). This parish lies in the valley of the Ure on the south-west border of the North Riding. The … as constituted in 1831, 1 covered an area of 22,940 acres, and included the townships of Burton upon Ure, Ellingtons and …
A History of the County of Essex
… MATCHING Matching is an isolated rural parish 7 km. east of Harlow town. 1 The ancient parish comprised 2,417 a. … a detached portion of 1.5 a. locally situated in Sheering, and merged in that parish in 1883. 2 In 1955 the area was … records have survived except registers and some tithe papers. 205 There is no doubt, however, that parish …
A History of the County of Worcester
… cent.); Mathonaching (xvi cent.). The Worcestershire part of Mathon, now known as West Malvern, forms a parish on the … Hills. Mathon was formerly partly in Worcestershire and partly in Herefordshire and most of the original parish … energy and ability this church was restored to its present state of beauty, A.D. 1897.' There is a ring of six bells …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Parishes Maulden MAULDEN Meldone (xi cent.). The parish of Maulden covers an area of over 2,604 acres of … of which 1,149 are arable land, 759 permanent pasture and 343 woods and plantations. 1 The wooded portion lies to …