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Hace 4 días · MANORS AND BOROUGH. The present town of Kidderminster has developed from a settlement on the left bank of the Stour. (fn. 2) There is, however, evidence pointing to still earlier settlements elsewhere in the parish. In Mill Street, on the right bank of the river, there are caves in the sandstone cliff resembling the rock dwellings found in ...
Hace 4 días · Subsequently the overlordship of Hurstpierpoint came into the hands of the Lords Bergavenny, and the manor was said in 1602 to have been held of their manor of Ditchling. (fn. 7) Robert de Petraponte had a son Godfrey, (fn. 8) who is mentioned in 1090 and 1100, (fn. 9) and who had a son William.
Hace 3 días · Mr. Evelyn, in his Discourse on Forest Trees, mentions a superannuated yew-tree growing in this churchyard, which being 58 feet 11 inches in circumference, bore near 20 feet diameter; and besides which there were goodly planks, and other considerable pieces of square and clear timber, which he observed to lie about it, which had been hewed and sawn out of some of the arms only, torn from it by ...
Hace 5 días · Abergavenny Castle is situated within the town of Abergavenny. It is a picturesque ruin set against a backdrop of the mountains which surround this area. The castle dates from around 1087 which at that time was a wooden construction upon a steep hillock surrounded by a ditch. As the seat of the medieval lords of Abergavenny, the castle was the ...
Hace 1 día · Daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 4th Earl of Arundel, married Sir William Beauchamp, later Baroness Bergavenny. 81 William I, Duke of Guelders and Jülich: d. 1402 c.1399 82 William VI, Count of Holland: 1365–1417 c.1399 83 John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Bourchier: d. 1400 c.1399 84 John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont: 1361–1396 c.1393–1396 85 ...
Hace 3 días · The parish of Waltham St. Lawrence contains 3,939 acres of land; there are 1,090 acres of arable land, 1,598 of permanent pasture and 342 of woods and plantations. (fn. 1) The parish is low-lying, and near the village is only about 120 ft. above the ordnance datum; the highest ground (214 ft.) is in Billingbear Park, in the south of the parish.
Hace 1 día · He had three brothers, George, Egbers and Phineas, and two sisters, Susan and Laura. The family moved to a small town in Missouri in 1880 and farmed. In 1890 he, his mother and two of his brothers moved to Globe in the Arizona Territory. Locals remembered him as “Jim.” He, like Griffiths and his family, had worked in mining.
