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A History of the County of Surrey
… Parishes Merrow MERROW Merwe and Merewe (xiii cent.); Merroe (xviii cent.). Merrow is a village 2 miles east of Guildford. The parish is bounded on the north-west by Worplesdon, on the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Mersham MERSHAM. THE next parish to Kingsnoth north-eastward is Mersham, being … to be described in this hundred. It is written in Domesday and other antient records Mersham. A small district of the eastern part of it is in the hundred of Bircholt …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Parishes Merstham MERSTHAM Merstan (xi cent.); Mestham and Merstham (xii cent.); Meyrstham and Merystham (xiv cent.) Merstham is a village 3 miles north-east of Reigate, 8 miles south-by-west from Croydon, on the road between the two. The parish is bounded on the north …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… This place takes its name from its situation, being flat and low, where the soil is naturally marshy. It is now grown … to be known to any one to have been a parish. THE PARISH of Merston is now esteemed as part of the parish of Shorne, … its civil jurisdication, though as to its ecclesiastical state it still continues a separate parish. It has been …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Merton MERTON Marten, Martin, Marton. Merton is a parish of about 1,763 acres, occupied for the most part by market gardens on the south and west, and by increasing numbers of small houses connected … were founded. These were lately untenanted and in a state of dilapidation owing to a dispute as to the title. Mr. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Merton MERTON The parish of Merton, 1 covering 1,932 acres, lies about a mile to the … south of Bicester, mostly in the plain of the Oxford Clay, and on the 200-ft. contour line. 2 Before 1941 when the army … parish. At this time the church itself was also in a bad state of repair. 242 Towards the end of the century, efforts …
Magna Britannia
… MEVAGISSEY, in the deanery and in the east division of the hundred of Powder, anciently called Lamorrack or … taken down before Leland's time. The manor-house, now in a state of dilapidation, was occasionally inhabited by Sir John … in the reign of King Charles II., who contributed some papers on Respiration, and other subjects, to the …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Parishes Michelmersh MICHELMERSH Muchelmaries, Michelmares, and Muchelmarays (xiii cent.); Michelmarsh and Mitchelmarsh … (xiv cent.); Mychelmers (xvi cent.). The parish of Michelmersh is on high ground which falls in the west to … lease by indenture of 1538. Collins, Letters and Mem. of State, i, 82; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xcviii, No. 30. Pat. …
A History of the County of Surrey
… Parishes Mickleham MICKLEHAM Michelham and Micelham (xi cent.); Mikeleham (xii cent.); Mikelham and … and 2 miles from north to south, and contains 2,825 acres. The village lies in the Mole valley, and the parish comprises the valley and the downs rising on either side of it, where the Mole makes its way in a deep depression …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… Middleham is picturesquely situated in Wensleydale between the Rivers Ure and Cover, which unite just beyond the parish. The banks of the Cover are beautifully wooded. The valley of the Ure is …