Hampshire Including the Isle of Wight. With Maps ...

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Edward Robert Kelly
1875
 

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Pagina 1 - Hampshire is bounded on the north by Berkshire, on the east by Surrey and Sussex, on the south by the English Channel, and on the west by Wiltshire and Dorsetshire. The length of the county (mainland part) from north to south varies from 37 to 46 miles ; the breadth varies from 28 to 41 miles.
Pagina 54 - There appears to have been a castle here at a very remote period ; for in a grant made to the priory of Monks' Sherbourne, in the reign of Henry II., mention is made of the
Pagina 108 - Mention of the town, however, is first met with about the year 900, in the account given by the Saxon chronicler of the contest for the crown between Edward the Elder and his kinsman Ethelwald in 901 ; the latter having collected troops to support his pretensions, marched to Wimborne, in Dorsetshire, of which place he took possession, and afterwards continued his progress to Tweonea, or Twynham...
Pagina 36 - The living is a vicarage, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, valued in the king's books at £40.
Pagina 38 - The register dates from the year 1559. The living is a rectory...
Pagina 103 - Winchester ; the joint annual value is £000, with residence and 77 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge, and held by the Rev.
Pagina 105 - Is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is marl ; subsoil, gravel and chalk.
Pagina 192 - Tharp, esq., is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is various.
Pagina 277 - The first abbess was Marivanna, a lady of noble origin and great piety, who was succeeded by Elwina: during the ministry of this abbess, the Danes, headed by Selwyn, effected a landing, and proceeded direct to the monastery, which they pillaged : by some miraculous agency the abbess is said to have received brief warning of the invaders...
Pagina 387 - Medows esq. is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is light ; sulwoil, chalk.

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