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A History of the County of Hampshire
… this manor of which he was lord in 11667 11 and gave the church, with its appurtenances, to the nuns of De la Pr (co. … next seventy years, but in 1709 it belonged to Sir John St. Barbe, baronet, 43 who in 1717 sold it to Hugh … in Redenham in the 15th century. 63 Church The church of ST. NICHOLAS consists of a chancel 18 ft. 9 in. by 15 ft. 5 …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… the railway station, many new houses and the new church of St. Stephen, passes the Victoria Hotel, half-way … Church Lane ascends northwards to the disused church of St. Stephen; a third lane goes southwest past the Green and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… not well watered. The Millbridge brook, rising in Hatley St. George, flows westwards to the village and then … the north of the junction ran, and still runs, the road to St. Neots, then called St. Edes Way. The Waresley-Sandy road, … began around a central, triangular green, bounded by Church Street (formerly High Street) on the north, West …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and south-east ridge, rising from 76 m. near the church to 110 m. at the eastern boundary, and was a backbone … areas of Kellaways Sand south-east and north-east of the church. 11 The Cornbrash favours arable, but much of Garsdon … O.S. Maps 1/50,000, sheet 173 (1974 edn.); 1/25,000, ST 98 (1959 edn.); 6", Wilts. VIIIIX (18889 and later edns.). …
A History of the County of Oxford
… meet the 'Kingesweie', 14 the present main road, lay the church and parsonage with Havels manor-house. 15 It is … tax. The younger Andrew (b. 1655) became Vice-Principal of St. Edmund Hall, and helped Anthony Wood to compile his … manor was being farmed for the Crown by the Warden of St. John's Hospital outside the East Gate of Oxford, and was …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… some few being grouped near the mill to the west of the church. The soil is loam with a subsoil of chalk and … the present owner, Sir Charles Seely. CHURCH The church of ST. OLAVE lies in a leafy hollow, just to the north of … a living as an increase to the income of the principal of St. Edmund Hall, 81 who is now patron. At the beginning of …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… (xviii cent.). Gate Helmsley, once part of the Liberty of St. Peter, 1 lies on the borders of the East Riding along the … military road, after which it is said to be named. 2 Its church and the little Wesleyan chapel, which dates from 1814, … that the lands were held of the king as of his hospital of St. Leonard of York, but this is probably caused by a …
A History of the County of Surrey
… southwards on to the Upper Green Sand and Gault. The church and such village as there is stand on the Green Sand. … parishes of Gatton and Chipstead. 81 CHURCH The church of ST. ANDREW has a chancel 12 ft. 4 in. deep by 12 ft. wide, … as lord of the manor, for he granted it to the priory of St. Pancras founded at Lewes by William de Warenne. 83 The …
A History of the County of Warwick
… is disposed along a short loop south of the junction. The church stands south of the right-angled bend of the village … white stone rubble and thatched roofs. One, north of the church, with Hornton stone dressings is dated 1719, but most … appears now to be extinct. Church The parish church of ST. GILES, erected in 1852, is a small building of ashlar in …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… on the Tees at the Durham border, commands fine views. The church is placed on rising ground above the vicarage at the … Cowton, said to have been a resting-place of the bones of St. Cuthbert in their 'wanderings' during the 9th century, 7 … the Romanbys, but the latter had received many grants from St. Agatha's Abbey which had been enfeoffed by the family of …