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A History of the County of Oxford
… Parishes Prescote PRESCOTE The lordship of Prescote (555 a.) lies on a spur of land, … in the north to over 450 ft., between the River Cherwell and its tributary the Highfurlong Brook. 1 It was independent …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Parishes Prescott PRESCOTT Prescott, lying on the Cotswold escarpment five miles north-north-east of Cheltenham and two and a half miles west of Winchcombe, was an …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Parishes Preshute PRESHUTE The history of Preshute, which adjoins Marlborough on the south, north, and west, has been closely involved with that of the borough … 125 Thereafter the castle was never put into a defensive state or visited by the queens who held it in dower. It fell …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Parishes Prestbury PRESTBURY The parish of Prestbury lies on the lower slopes of the Cotswold … Prestbury, which in the Middle Ages had a market and fair, 1 has been overshadowed by the growth of modern … Hockaday Abs. cccxv. Ibid. xlii, 1566 visit., f. 6; xlvii, state of clergy 1576, f. 139. Ibid. cccxv. G.D.R. vol. 40. …
A History of the County of Rutland
… PRESTON Preston on the Hulle (xiv cent.). The parish of Preston, which lies about two miles north of Uppingham, … 1,207 acres, mostly of grass land. The surface soil varies and lies on a subsoil of Inferior Oolite. The village is … parish church are two sets of documents: (1) Historical papers found in the parish chest illustrative of the taxation …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Prestetone (xi cent.); Bisshopes Preston (xiii cent.). The medieval parish of Preston formed a rectangle, 2 miles long from east to west and rather less than a mile wide, lying immediately to the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… from Elmstone. It is written in Domesday, Prestetune, and is usually called Preston near Wingham, and in several … stiled East Preston, to distinguish it from another parish of the same name near Faversham. There are three boroughs in … religious should always undergo and acknowledge. In which state the rectory appropriate, with the advowson of the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… is Preston, written in antient records both Prestentune and Prestetone, which name it is supposed to have taken from … near Faversham, to distinguish it from another parish of the same name near Wingham. THE HIGH ROAD from London to … et est de victu eorum, as the record has it. 1 In which state it continued at the time of the taking of the general …
A History of the County of Warwick
… 157; 1931, 153. Preston Bagot lies about 1 miles east of Henley-inArden. The parish is of unusual shape, the greater part of it being in the form of a rough parallelogram lying north and south, with a smaller rectangular piece at the south end, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… (xv cent.); Kandavor (xvii cent.). The parish of Preston Candover, containing 3,457 acres, lies on … ground, south of the high country round Farleigh Wallop and Nutley, and north-west of that which rises to Wield and … to the poor, producing 10 s. a year, and the same returns state that a sum of 5 was given by some person unknown, …