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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Wincanton - Windy Nook Wincanton (St. Peter and St. Paul) WINCANTON ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a market-town and parish, and the head of a union, in the hundred of …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… is the only remaining portion of the castle where Norman and Angevin kings resided, where Henry I was married to Maud of Scotland and their son William Atheling was born, where Henry III was … born, where Henry VIII entertained the Emperor Charles V, and where Mary and Philip celebrated part of their ill-fated …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… chalk down-land. Roman roads approach it from all sides, and the Itchen while navigable brought it into touch with Southampton, and so with the centres of continental trade. The present … borough of Winchester lay within the walls, but the east and west sokes, or suburbs, which entirely surrounded it, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… owed its first beginnings to its important geographical and political status 3 rather than to any deliberate trade … before or only after the Conquest it was only a part, and at first not necessarily a vital part of the borough … large. Any person finding such was empowered to kill the animal and fine the owner 3 s. 198 Similar orders were made …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is nearly in the centre of the peninsula of Holderness, and consists of about 2000 acres. Two-thirds are arable, and one-third under grass, among the latter of which are … above 200 acres of wood; the surface is undulated, and the soil a strong fertile clay. The living is a rectory, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the union of Winchester, hundred of Fawley, Winchester and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, of a mile (N. … This is a small parish, north of the road to Alresford, and east of the river Itchin.See Winchester. Winnersh … of Sonning, county of Berks; containing 547 inhabitants, and comprising by measurement 1777 a. 27 p. of land. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… the S. boundary of Dorchester across the South Winterborne and on to the N. slopes of the S. Dorset Ridgeway. It lies on … it was included in the parish of Winterborne Farringdon, and thereafter until the late 19th century in Winterborne … Herringston, a house containing notable plasterwork and panelling, is the principal monument. Secular (1) …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York, 7 miles (N. W. by N.) from … inhabitants. It is situated on the east side of the Aire, and intersected by a tributary of that river. There is a … now no longer held. The parish is tolerably extensive, and the village, which is long and straggling, occupies a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Mary) WISBECH ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Wisbech, Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 3 … The parish comprises 9483 a. 1 r. 5 p., of arable and pasture land in nearly equal portions; 186 acres are … is endowed with 21 acres of land. Wisbech (St. Peter and St. Paul) WISBECH ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a sea-port, …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Hundred Outwell and Upwell OUTWELL AND UPWELL These two villages lie astride the Well Stream. Each is therefore partly in Norfolk and partly in the Isle of Ely. 1 In the Middle Ages they were …