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A History of the County of Middlesex
… Eng. Society, 290; Ballard, Domesday Inq. 167. Anglo-Saxon Writs, ed. Florence Harmer, 344-5, no. 77. Laws of the …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… did not long survive the Conquest. 43 Wlward 'White', 'a Saxon thane of large and ubiquitous estate', 44 was able … Herts., Bucks., Oxon., Wilts., Glos., and Warws. Anglo-Saxon Chron. (D), 1079. See p. 110. Dom. Bk. i. 36 b. See p. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… evince it to have been of great importance. In the Saxon age, two mints were granted to the place by Athelstan. … interesting remains of a supposed British amphitheatre, a Saxon earthwork called Poundbury, and the intrenched … as the head of a see, during the continuance of the Saxon heptarchy. King Athelstan held a great council here in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Culham, a place of considerable importance in the Anglo-Saxon period, has at Culham Manor the remains of a … Thame hundred see below, p. 114. Florence E. Harmer, Anglo-Saxon Writs, 2667, and references given there; E. John, Land …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the kingdom, commenced here. At a very early period the Saxon invaders made themselves masters of the castle, and … was a postern upon the vallum which joined the Roman and Saxon works, with a subterraneous passage into the castle, … there are four other wells, each 370 feet deep, within the Saxon lines of defence. The more recent works are, batteries …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Conquest, when it was possessed by Aufray, or Alfred, a Saxon. It was granted by the Lacys to Ralph de Rous, and … a navigable river, Downham Port, derives its name from the Saxon Dune, a hill, and ham, a dwelling. In the reign of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… at 100 hides, or of the land with its immunity, by Anglo-Saxon kings to bishops of Winchester. 2 The private hundred …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… 1 miles S. of Doynton village. It is called 'eald dic' in Saxon charters (Grundy (19356), 93, 205; Sawyer, No. 414). …