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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… dedicated to St. Mary, is very ancient, with a curious Saxon arched doorway. Essendon (St. Mary) ESSENDON ( St. … Eastern Saxons," from its relative position to the other Saxon kingdoms. The county is in the province of Canterbury, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the promontory is an encampment, conjectured to be of Saxon origin, of the date 492, and coeval with the battle of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… at Little Everdon Snorscomb is first mentioned in a Saxon Charter of 944 (BCS 792) where part of the bounds of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This place was originally called Homme or Haum, from the Saxon holm, a word particularly appropriate to the peninsular … in the service of Egwin, third bishop of Wessex, a Saxon province and bishopric, part of which now forms the … The convent received large grants of land from the Anglo-Saxon kings and nobility, as well as from other benefactors …
Ewelme
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… reflecting their close association with Benson's Anglo-Saxon royal estate (see Fig. 4). 4 A core area known as the … formed outliers of one of Ewelme's four late Anglo-Saxon estates. Other parish outliers included premises in … is reflected in the villages name, from the Anglo-Saxon aew(i)elm (a spring); 3 from the Middle Ages, however, …
Ewelme Hundred: An Overview
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… fildena wudu weg ('open-country wood-way') suggest Anglo-Saxon transhumance routes linking the upland wood-pastures … suggest more extensive woodland in the vale in the Anglo-Saxon period, 6 while field names such as grubbings' point to … origin, and both roads remained important from the Anglo-Saxon period onwards. 1 A roughly parallel route runs from …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It was for a considerable time the capital of the West Saxon kingdom, and was subsequently occupied by the Danes, … the violation of a solemn treaty made with Alfred, the Saxon monarch. Alfred, however, invested the city, and … a promise of evacuating all their holds within the West Saxon territory; it was afterwards attacked by the Danish …
Survey of London
… structures'he intended laying out a recreation ground. H. Saxon Snell was the architect, and James Patten the builder, … DSR: ILHC, Clerkenwell Vestry Annual Reports, 187484: H. Saxon Snell, Charitable and Parochial Establishments, 1881, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… Rueshale in the hundred of Earsham; by his wife, Maud, a Saxon, daughter of Ingelrick, founder of the college of St. …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… d. Byntre-Hastings Manor. On the deprivation of Edric, a Saxon freeman, this lordship was granted to Walter Giffard: …