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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… WOOL (8486) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 88 NW, bSY 88 NE, SY 89 SW) The modern parish of Wool, 5 m. W. of Wareham, covers some … acres on both sides of the river Frome between 200 ft. and 50 ft. above O.D. The S. part slopes from Chalk in the … in 1539 and then granted to Sir Thomas Poynings. Coker ( Survey of Dorsetshire, 77) refers to a fair house which was …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Economic history ECONOMIC HISTORY: Agriculture. In 1086 there was no … land in either Woolaston manor or Aluredston, though the king held two fisheries in demesne at Madgett. 6 By the … at Aluredston. Three demesne servants were employed, and 22 boonworks at haymaking and 102 boonworks at harvest …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a parish of scattered hamlets lying midway between Lydney and Chepstow. Roughly rectangular in shape, it rises from the River Severn to the high ground of Tidenham Chase. The … north of the road it takes an erratic course unrelated to topographical features. It is likely that originally the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woolaston Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. Before the Conquest Brictric son of Algar held two hides in … Com.), iv. 370. See above. Badminton Mun. F. d. 2, Madgett survey. They were built before 1842: Glos. R.O., D 307. A …
A History of the County of Somerset
… its name derived from a Saxon personal name, 5 lies on the northern slope of the Polden ridge near its western end. … rectangular in shape measuring 3 km. from north to south and 2.5 km. from east to west. Its northern and eastern … Bannester in 1593 may have been its site. 28 ECONOMIC HISTORY AGRICULTURE PRE-INCLOSURE In 1086 Woolavington was …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Woore Woolminstone WOOLMINSTONE, a tything, in the union of Chard, hundred of Crewkerne, Western division of Somerset; … is situated on the road from Ipswich to Bury St. Edmund's, and was formerly a market-town. The parish comprises 1898 a. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Ancient and historical monuments in east London Woolwich 12. WOOLWICH. (O.S. 6-in. London, Sheets (a)L, (b)P.) The Borough of Woolwich consists of the parishes of Woolwich, … were largely intact at the time of the Parliamentary survey, under the Commonwealth, but since that time have been …
The Environs of London
… to its etymology. Situation. Boundaries. Quantity of land, and how occupid. Soil. Chalk-pit. Land-tax. Woolwich lies on the banks of the Thames, within the hundred of Blackheath, … of the Warren. Table of benefactions. See Hasted's History of Kent, vol. i. p. 44. A Court-leet and Court-baron …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Woothorpe - Wootton-Wawen Woothorpe WOOTHORPE, a hamlet, in the parish of St. Martin, Stamford-Baron, union of Stamford, soke of … to St. Mary, existed here in the time of Henry I., and was united in the reign of Edward III. to the convent of …