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A History of the County of Hampshire
… Playtfourth (xv cent.). Plaitford, which formed part of Wiltshire until 1895, contains 5 acres of land covered with water and 1,323 acres of land, of which 382 acres are arable, 247 permanent grass and 136 woodland. 1 The River Blackwater flows through Plaitford from west to …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… other records, Plukele. It is situated on the lower ridge of hills called the Quarry-hills; the parish is about two … in Lid. THE FAMILY of Dering, as appears from the family papers and manuscripts in the Surrenden library, and from … it was so notorious a breach of honesty in him, that no state should suffer so bad an example to be countenanced. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… PLUMPTON Pluntune, Plumtona (xi cent.); Plompton (xv and xvi cent.). Plumpton has an area of 2,450 acres, and is the strip of country lying to the east of Streat. At the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the next parish northward from East Wickham, on the banks of the river Thames, which is its northern boundary. This … hundred acres of land, lies so much exposed to the damp and foggy air of the marshes, that it is far from being … part of the last century the whole was in so dilapidated a state that the roof fell in, in which condition it laid for …
Magna Britannia
… called Plympton Maurice, or Plympton Earls, a market and borough town, in the hundred and deanery of that name, lies about five miles from Plymouth, 39 from …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Parishes Podimore Milton PODIMORE MILTON The ancient parish of Podimore Milton, known as Middleton or Milton Abbatis from its ownership by Glastonbury abbey 1 and later as Milton Podimore, derives part of its name from … and drilling volunteers. From 1806 until 1811 or later a calendar of monthly pay to paupers was kept and in 1844 a …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Parishes Podington and Hinwick PODINGTON with HINWICK Podintone, Potintone (xii, … (xi cent.); Henewic, Hynewyk (xiii cent.). The parish of Podington with Farndish includes 3,515 acres, of which … and the north arcade is a few years later, but an earlier state of the building is shown by the angles of an aisleless …
A History of the County of Northampton
… (xv cent.), Polehbrooke als Polebrooke (xviii cent.). The parish of Polebrook covers 1,836 acres, its hamlet of Armston, 852 … here 681 acres of arable land, 1,037 of permanent grass, and 13 of woods and plantations. The chief crops are hay, …
A History of the County of Warwick
… a large parish, measuring over 5 miles from north to south and about 3 miles from east to west. Its southern boundary is mostly formed by the Penmire Brook, which joins the River Anker, here flowing … which it forms when it again turns north lies the village of Polesworth, with its church, school, Baptist, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Parishes Polton POLTON THE parish of Polton lies the next south-eastward from River, within the … very small, consisting of only the manor farms of Polton and St. Radigund's, of about forty acres of land, owned by … by the performance of ward for the defence of it. In which state it remained till the dissolution of the abbey in the …