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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… b SP 75 NE) Wootton parish, 702 hectares in area, lies S. of Northampton and the R. Nene. It is separated from the … its S. side at 71 m. above OD. The village lies E. of the London Road at 85 m. above OD. A number of prehistoric and … than the 13th century but the irregular plan in which the tower and W. walls are now on a markedly different axis from …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… ( d)XXXVII, N.W.) Wootton Fitzpaine is a parish 2 m. N.E. of Lyme Regis. The church and Wootton House are the principal … built and the South Porch added; the upper part of the Tower was perhaps built at the same period. The church was … responds and moulded four-centred head. The Central Tower (11 ft. square) is of three stages with a plain …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… WOOTTON RIVERS Wootton Rivers village lies 6 km. south of Marlborough. 91 Besides the village, the parish contains East Wick Farm, which possibly stands on the site of what was a small village in the Middle Ages. 92 The suffix … the parish in 1862. Since 1906 it has been part of a main London-Exeter line. A passenger halt was opened at the south …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… 6 in. XII, N.W.) North Wootton is a small parish 1 m. S.E. of Sherborne. Ecclesiastical (1) Parish Church Of St. Mary … stone slates. The late 14th or early 15th-century West Tower is the only surviving part of the old church; the nave … modern church was built. Architectural DescriptionThe West Tower (5 ft. by 7 ft.) is of late 14th or early 15th-century …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worcester - Wormsley Worcester WORCESTER, a city, a county of itself, having exclusive jurisdiction, and the head of a … W. divisions of the county, 111 miles (N. W. by W.) from London; containing 25,401 inhabitants. This place, which is … cathedral, of which the only one now remaining is Edgar's tower. In 1041, a tax imposed by Hardicanute excited an …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857
… Worcester cathedral chapter was established by charter of Henry VIII on 24 Jan. 1542, after the dissolution of its monastic body. As in each of the other cathedrals in … prebends can normally be found in the patent rolls and the London Gazette. The virtually complete series of bishops' …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… in God the Lord Bushopp and others her majesties justices of the peace Your lordships humble peticioner Ellioner Reeve … her, was about a moneth sithence forceiblie turned out of an out howse of Thomas Sales in Odingley wherein she had … Whereas your poore peticioner, beinge an apprentice in London and sonne of John Hawes of the parish of Grimley, was …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… BA1/1/22/60 (1615) To the Kinges majesties justices of the peace of the countie of Worcester. The humble petition of Thomas … leadinge from the most places of Walles to the cytie of London, the chardge for the reedifieinge thereof wilbe soe …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… Worcestershire Quarter Sessions: 1619 The poor prisoners of the castle of Worcester. Ref.110 BA1/1/26/43 (1619) To the right … as speciall bayle for Thomas Canninge of the city of London carpenter, to arrest on Thomas Stife of Westwood in …