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A History of the County of Oxford
… to Winchester by Bishop Haeddi. To this the Anglo-Saxon chronicle adds, that it was at Dorchester that Cynegils … probably in 663, the king, who could talk nothing but Saxon, wearied with the bishop's outlandish language, divided … 16 One record of the church in Oxfordshire during the Saxon period is to be found in a manuscript of ecclesiastical …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… p. It is probable that this place was the Ethandune of the Saxon Chronicle, where Alfred is recorded to have obtained a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… explained by the rapid extension of sheep farming in late Saxon times (of which there is ample evidence elsewhere in … See, for example, W. G. Hoskins, Sheep Farming in Saxon and Medieval England, and H. P. R. Finberg, Roman and Saxon Withington, 20, 21, and Gloucestershire Studies, 13. W. …
A History of the County of Chester
… Dee Fisheries The earl of Chester inherited from his Anglo-Saxon predecessor important fishing rights which included a …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Arch. Survey, (1972)). Medieval and Later Part of an Anglo-Saxon loom weight has been found in the parish (SP 835639; BNFAS, 2 (1967), 21). b(21) Anglo-Saxon Cemetery (SP 830637), found in 1762 in the gardens of …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… contended for by the native Welsh and their Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman invaders. Deganwy is mistakenly …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… G.D.R. vol. 285B, f. 18. H. M. & J. Taylor, Anglo-Saxon Architecture (Cambridge, 1968), i, p. 227. Trans. …
The Environs of London
… etymology appears to be very erroneous; for neither do the Saxon Glossaries affix any such sense to the component parts … Since that time it has been spelt, as now, Edgware. The Saxon word waer, is sometimes construed war, and sometimes a …