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A History of the County of Middlesex
Volume IV: Elthorne Hundred (continued) and Gore Hundred (part)
Av T. F. T. Baker, J. S. Cockburn
Inbunden, 1971
1271 kr
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This contains histories of ten ancient parishes in north-west Middlesex. Wealthy Lon-doners began to buy property here during the Middle Ages and later settled in fine houses, exemplified by the Jacobean mansion of Swake-leys. Thearea in return supplied the capital with corn, livestock, and, …
A History of the County of Essex
Volume V
Av W. R. Powell
Inbunden, 1966
1271 kr
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This volume is the first of two containing the history of all the places in Waltham hundred and some of those in Becontree hundred. This region, most of which is now in Greater London, extends eastwards from the River Lea and northwards from the Thames. Until the mid-19th century it was rich farm …
A History of the County of Middlesex
Volume I: Physique, Archaeology, Domesday Survey, Ecclesiastical Organization, Education, Index to Persons and Places in the Domesday Survey, General Index
Av H. P. F. King, K. G. T. Mc Donnell m. fl.
Inbunden, 1969
1271 kr
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This volume completes the 'general' history of the county which was begun in 1911 in Middlesex II. It contains illustrated articles on the physique and pre-history of Middlesex, from Palaeolithic to Pagan Saxon times, on its religious houses and ecclesiastical organization, and on education within …
A History of the County of Stafford
Volume II with index to Volumes I and II
Av M.W. Greenslade, J.G. Jenkins
Inbunden, 1967
1271 kr
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This volume is concerned mainly with the industrial history of Staffordshire. It not only includes a full treatment of pottery and other major industries such as mining, engineering and the various metal trades, but also deals with the textiles of Leek, the boots and shoes of Stafford, the …
General Introduction
Av R. B. Pugh
Inbunden, 1970
1271 kr
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THE Victoria History of the Counties of England has been in progress for 70 years and has recently seen the publication of its 150th volume. The General Introduction provides a conspectus of all that has been published up to and including 1970, with a bibliographical survey, lists of the contents …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
Volume V
Inbunden, 1973
1271 kr
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This volume contains the histories of 25 parishes in west Cambridgeshire and eight articles on sport. The parishes form the hundreds of Longstowe and Wetherley. On the west they lie along the Old North Road, which has affected thechanging shape and fortunes of some of the villages, while on the …
A History of the County of Dorset
Volume III
Av R. B. Pugh
Inbunden, 1968
1271 kr
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THIS volume contains a translation of the Dorset section of Domesday Book with a commentary and index. The Exchequer and Exeter texts of the Survey are printed side by side for purposes of comparison. The text of the Dorset section of the Geld Rolls with translation and commentary is appended.
A History of the County of Essex
Volume VI
Av W. R. Powell
Inbunden, 1973
1271 kr
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This volume completes Becontree hundred by providing histories of East Ham, West Ham, Little Ilford, Leyton, Walthamstow, Wanstead, and Woodford. The region, rural until the 19th century, is now part of Greater London. Though mainly residen-tial it includes, at Silvertown, Canning Town, and …
A History of the County of Essex
Volume VIII
Av Beryl A. Board, Norma Knight m. fl.
Inbunden, 1983
1271 kr
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This volume completes Chafford hundred and covers Harlow hundred. The part of Chafford hundred, now in Brentwood District and Thur-rock borough, includes Aveley, Stifford, Grays Thurrock and West Thurrock beside the Thames and, further north, Childerditch, Brentwood, and South Weald. Grays …
A History of the County of Gloucester
Volume VIII
Inbunden, 1968
1271 kr
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The volume describes the history of Tewkesbury and 22 other parishes lying mainly between the Severn and Bredon and Cleeve Hills. Tewkesbury itself was once an important centre for communications, manufacture, trade, and administration; its great abbey church remains, and the many timber-framed …
A History of the County of Gloucester
Volume X
Av N. M. Herbert, C. R. Elrington
Inbunden, 1972
1271 kr
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This volume gives the history of the six parishes in Westbury hundred and the sixteen in Whitstone hundred. Both hundreds abut the River Severn. Westbury hundred, on the right bank, adjoins the Forest of Dean: the landscape is relatively wild and large areas of woodland survive. The hundred lies in …
A History of the County of Oxford
Volume X: Banbury Hundred
Inbunden, 1972
1271 kr
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This volume contains the history of the four large parishes in north Oxfordshire that formed the hundred of Banbury: Banbury, Charlbury, Cropredy, and Swal-cliffe. The four parishes do not constitute a single, compact area, and are linked together because they belonged in the early Middle Ages to …
A History of Shropshire
Volume II
Av A.T. Gaydon
Inbunden, 1973
1271 kr
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Ecclesiastical history, the history of public schools and endowed grammar schools, and sporting history provide the bulk of the content in Volume II. The opening chapter deals not only with the territorial organization of the established church in Shropshire but also with the history of Roman …
A History of Shropshire
Volume III
Av G. C. Baugh
Inbunden, 1979
1271 kr
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The themes of Volume III are the government and parliamentary representation of Shropshire from their beginnings up to 1974. The long perspective allows the vicissi-tudes of successive institutions of county government to be examined thoroughly. For example, the rise of the justices of the peace is …
A History of the County of Stafford
Volume III
Inbunden, 1970
1271 kr
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The ecclesiastical history of Staffordshire provides the content of Volume III. The opening chapter on the Medieval Church traces the early history of Christianity in the area and recounts the struggle for predominance between Lichfield and Coventry. There are separate chapters on the Church of …
A History of the County of Stafford
Volume VI
Av M.W. Greenslade, D.A. Johnson
Inbunden, 1979
1271 kr
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This volume completes the general articles planned for Staffordshire and also contains the history of the county town. Four articles on agriculture survey a thousand years of farming. Cultivation gradually reduced the extensive woodlands recorded in Domesday Book. The progress of arable farming in …
A History of Wiltshire
Volume I Part 2
Inbunden, 1973
1271 kr
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Volume I(2) contains a series of chapters originally planned to accompany within a single volume a comprehensive gazetteer of Wiltshire's prehistoric remains. In the event the gazetteer was published as Volume I(1) in 1957 and thechapters are now ap-pearing after a considerable lapse of time. …
A History of Wiltshire
Volume IX
Inbunden, 1970
1271 kr
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Volume IX contains histories of Swindon, Wootton Bassett, and nine rural parishes. Special attention has been given to the development of New Swindon after the coming of the G.W.R. works in 1845, and to the effects of that development upon the small and ancient market town of Old Swindon. Space is …
A History of the County of Somerset
Volume III
Inbunden, 1974
1271 kr
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This is the first volume of the Victoria History of the County of Somerset to be pub-lished since 1911, and is the result of the revival of the History under the patronage of the County Council. It provides a com-prehensive and detailed account of twenty-one parishes towards the southern boundary …
A History of the County of Middlesex
Volume V: Gore Hundred (continued) and Edmonton Hundred
Inbunden, 1976
1271 kr
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The volume relates the history of four parishes in Gore hundred and of the five which form Edmonton hundred. The first group contains Hendon, Kingsbury, and Little Stanmore, all bordering Edgware Road, and Great Stanmore. A northward projection of Ossulstone hundred separates it from the second, …
A History of the County of Stafford
Volume XVII
Inbunden, 1976
1271 kr
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Historical accounts of three important industrial towns of the Black Country fill the present volume. West Bromwich, Smethwick, and Walsall are all close neighbours and all former county boroughs. West Bromwich had a domes-tic nailing industry in the 16th century but remained a scattered settlement …
A History of the County of York East Riding
Volume III
Av K.J. Allison
Inbunden, 1976
1271 kr
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The volume covers a large area in the Vale of York, lying to the south and east of the city. It is concerned with the history of the twelve parishes in Ouse and Derwent wapentake and of eight parishes in the western half of the Wilton Beacon division of Harthill wapentake. Ouse and Derwent …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
Volume VI
Inbunden, 1978
1271 kr
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This volume contains the histories of 24 parishes in south-east Cambridgeshire, forming the hundreds of Chilford, Radfield, and Whittlesford. Traversed, and in part bounded, by the Icknield Way and the ancient Wool Street, they stretch from the neighbourhood of Cambridge to the Suffolk border. In …
A History of the County of Somerset
Volume IV
Inbunden, 1978
1271 kr
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The fourth volume of the history of Somerset contains the histories of the parishes in the three ancient hundreds of Crewkerne, Martock, and South Petherton. Lying near the middle of the southern edge of the county, there are, inall, 21 parishes (including Wambrook, transferred to Somerset from …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
Volume VII: Roman Cambridgeshire
Av C. R. Elrington, J. J. Wilkes
Inbunden, 1978
1271 kr
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This volume is devoted to an account of Roman Cambridgeshire. It completes the `general' articles on the county for the Victoria History, while the topography, on which four volumes have already been published, remains to be completed in three or four further volumes. Although in Roman times the …
A History of the County of Chester
Volume II
Av B. E. Harris
Inbunden, 1979
1271 kr
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This volume contains the administrative and parliamentary history of the county, a chapter on its forests, and a table of population. As a County Palatine in the later middle ages Cheshire developed institutions which differed from those of other English counties. No justices of the peace were …
A History of the County of Middlesex
Volume VI: Ossulstone Hundred
Inbunden, 1980
1271 kr
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The volume relates the history of Ossul-stone hundred and of the parishes of Friern Barnet, Finchley, and Hornsey, which form the outer part of the hundred's Finsbury division. The article on Hornsey covers Highgate village, including the half which lay within the county of London from 1889 until …
A History of Wiltshire
Volume XI: Downton Hundred, Elstub and Everleigh Hundred
Av D.A. Crowley
Inbunden, 1980
1271 kr
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Volume XI contains the histories of two scat-tered hundreds. The parishes of Downton hundred are ranged along the southern county boundary, and those of Elstub and Everleigh hundred are centred on Enford in the Avon valley but have outliers throughout Wiltshire. Downton hundred represents the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
Volume IV
Av K.J. Allison
Inbunden, 1979
1271 kr
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The volume covers a large area at the southern end of the Yorkshire Welds, lying west of the city of Hull and the town of Beverley. It is concerned with the history of fourteen parishes which comprise the greater part of the Hunsley Beacon division of Harthill wapentake. Though the rolling chalk …
A History of the County of Sussex
Volume VI Part I: Bramber Rape (Southern Part)
Av T.P. Hudson
Inbunden, 1980
1271 kr
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This volume describes the southern part of Bramber rape, the easternmost of the three rapes of West Sussex. It tells the history of 19 parishes lying along the coastal strip and over the South Downs. The rape takes its name from the castle at Bramber, which was the centre of the feudal honour and …
