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A History of the County of Essex
… Parishes Roydon ROYDON Roydon is 35 km. NNE of London, within the metropolitan Green Belt. Harlow Town adjoins it on the east, and Nazeing on the south. On the north and west the rivers …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Roesia or Roys (xiii cent.) 2; Crux Roesea 3 or Roesia and Roiston 4 (xiv cent.). Royston lies upon the northern slopes of the Hertfordshire Chalk Downs, which almost surround the … ' being broken all to pieces,' are evidence of the decayed state of the buildings purchased by the king. 84 Apparently …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… upon the clay-hills. It is written in Domesday, Rochinges, and now usually called and written Ruckinge. Part of it, in which the church stands, is in the hundred of … demesne lands in Rucking, among other places. In which state this manor continued till the suppression of the …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… (xi cent.). This parish, covering more than 7,000 acres in the valley of the Leven, contains the townships of Hutton, Rudby-in-Cleveland, Skutterskelfe and Sexhow, and the chapelries of Middleton-upon-Leven and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Roscompe, Roscombe, Ruscoumbe (xiv, xv cent.). The parish of Ruscombe covers an area of 1,294 acres, of which 680 are arable land, 395 permanent grass and 29 woods and plantations. 1 The soil is mostly gravel … of the Dean of Salisbury, made circa 1300, the same state of affairs is returned. 25 The rectory was held on a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Parishes Rushall RUSHALL The ancient parish of Rushall, 2,204 a. lying between Charlton and Upavon, is a long narrow parish typical of Salisbury … Upavon Vicarage. Hants R.O., Normanton MSS. box 24, estate papers, agreement to take down ho. Date on bldg. V.C.H. …
A History of the County of Hertford
… (xi cent.); Ressenden, Ryshenden, Russenden (xiii and xiv cent.); Rissheden, Russhenden (xiv cent.); Risden … (xvii cent.). Rushden is a small parish with an area of only 1,508 acres, of which about two-thirds are arable … woodland. 1 Friars Wood, of some considerable size, is in the north-east of the parish and Bachelors Wood to the north …
A History of the County of Northampton
… cent.); Risscheden, Rissendene, Rysshedene (xiii cent.). The parish of Rushden, containing about 3,775 acres, lies to the south … of Higham Ferrers with which the town is now continuous; and the town has a station on the Wellingborough and Higham …
A History of the County of Worcester
… (xiv cent.); Ryshok (xv cent.). Rushock is a fertile and well-wooded parish, having an area of 1,257 acres, 538 acres being arable land and 597 pasture. … When Ombersley Forest was partly disafforested in 1229 the new forest boundary passed through the middle of the town …
A History of the County of Rutland
… Belstrop, Belmesthorpe (xvi cent.). Ryhall is a parish of irregular shape on the Lincolnshire border of the county. It comprises the chapelries of Essendine and Belmesthorpe, but Essendine (q.v.) is considered, for lay …