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A History of the County of Essex
… which the parish takes its name (originally Withermund's ford) was probably that over the river Stour by the … is that a crocodile escaped from Richard I's menagerie in the Tower of London and caused much damage in … Ltd. Colchester, electric fan manufacturers. In 1964-5 St. Ives Sand and Gravel removed concrete as hardcore for …
A History of the County of Essex
… manors in Mount Bures and West Bergholt. 98 Robert Gernon's fief had escheated to the Crown, and Henry I granted it to … opposite the Waldegrave manor of Smallbridge in Bures St. Mary (Suff.), pre- sumably belonged to that manor. 14 … 1575-8, 424; Elizabeth I's grant of the manor to Richard Hill and William James in 1572 is presumably an error: ibid. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… in Buckinghamshire Worminghall 100. WORMINGHALL. (O.S. 6 in. (a)xxxi. N.E. (b)xxxi. S.E.) Eccleslastical b(1). Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, stands at the S. end of the village. The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… Wormley 148. WORMLEY. (O.S. 6 in. xxxvi. S.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Lawrence, stands about mile W. of the village. It is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… Wormsley 80 WORMSLEY (C.d.) (O.S. 6 in. (a)XXV, S.E., (b)XXVI, S.W.) Wormsley is a small … principal monument. Ecclesiastical a(1). Parish Church of St. Mary stands in the middle of the parish. The walls are of … the church. The priory was founded for Canons Regular of St. Augustine by a member of the Talbot family, probably in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Worplesdon - Wortwell Worplesdon (St. Mary) WORPLESDON ( St. Mary), a parish, in the union of … through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton College: the … in the neighbouring collieries. Worth, or Word (St. Peter And St. Paul) WORTH, or Word ( St. Peter and St. Paul), …
A History of the County of York
… and the chanting of the schola cantorum. With Paulinus's flight from York after the battle of Hatfield only James … (767-80) added two altars to the church, one dedicated to St. Paul and the other to the Martyrs and the Cross. The … predecessors, it was dedicated in the name of God and St. Peter the Apostle; and the great work of the year 1482 was …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… Worth Matravers 53 WORTH MATRAVERS (9777) (O.S. 6 ins. aSY 97 NE, bSY 98 SE) Worth Matravers, a parish … of Swanage. It stretches N.N.E. from the steep cliffs of St. Aldhelm's Head across an almost flat limestone tableland … in which small streams flow S. to the sea. In the W. is Hill Bottom, and in the E. are Winspit and Seacombe Bottoms, …
A History of the County of Sussex
… had led to the accumulation of shingle, and Worthing's former fine, hard sands 78 had been replaced by a pebbly … 87 Those conditions were a principal cause of Worthing's growth as a resort, and afterwards of the expansion of the market-gardening industry 88 and of the town's popularity as a site for convalescent homes. In the Middle …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Portland Road, 29 with money bequeathed by Robert Humphrys's will dated 1860. Part of the land was sold c. 1922, and the … charity by a Scheme of 1972; £4.80 was paid out in 1975. St. Elizabeth's alms-houses were founded in 1859 by Alfred … coal or groceries at Christmas for old people living near St. Matthew's church. In 1965 £8 16 s. was spent on …