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Hace 5 días · THE HUNDRED OF EFFINGHAM. The Hundred of Effingham is usually classed with Copthorne and described as a half-hundred: i.e. perhaps 50 hides, for in the time of Edward the Confessor the total assessment worked out at 47 hides. In 1086, in addition to the three parishes of Effingham, Great Bookham, and Little Bookham, which compose it at the ...
Hace 3 días · MORDEN. The parish of Morden is one of the smallest of the ancient Surrey parishes, containing only 1,475 acres, of which 255½ acres are arable land, 632¾ permanent grass, and 33 woods. (fn. 1) It is one of the few examples of the situation of the village and entire parish on the London Clay.
Hace 4 días · St. Mary, Newington, Schools, Newington Butts. A charity school for boys was established in Newington in 1710–11, when Richard Cambridge and others subscribed for 20 boys to be taught reading, writing and arithmetic and to be provided with clothing. The school was managed by a committee of the subscribers and the number of boys was ...
Hace 2 días · In Vincent's Visitation of Surrey, are preserved some inscriptions from brass plates, to the memory of the following persons, some of which are now lost or much mutilated: viz. Thomas Ellynbridge, gentleman porter to Cardinal Morton, who died in 1497; (the canopy on this tomb remains with part of the inscription;) Walter Gaynesford, chaplain, who died in 1493; (this tomb remains with the ...
Hace 4 días · Runnymede and Ankerwycke. The birthplace of the Magna Carta. History, art and nature on the banks of the River Thames. Windsor Road, near Old Windsor, Surrey, SL4 2JL (SatNav: TW20 0AE) Opening times. See on map.
Nos. 214–204 Lambeth Road. Measured drawing by Evelyn Prior. No. 210 (formerly No. 2 Union Place) was leased by Buckmaster to William Singleton, carpenter, in 1784. (fn. 13) From this time to the present day Singleton's Eye Ointment has been made on these premises. There is a tradition in the firm that the preparation was invented by a ...
Hace 2 días · Tooting is assessed the sum of 163 l. to the land-tax, which is at the rate of 1 s. in the pound. Manors. It appears that there were two manors in this parish at the time of the Conquest, exclusive of that of Tooting Bec, which belonged to Streatham. One of them had been held of King Edward by Swain.
