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The ancient St Thomas à Becket church in Cliffe, Lewes, goes back to Saxon times, claims a new history book out this week.
A historic manor house recorded in the Domesday Book has gone on the market for £2.25 million. Evegate Manor, located in Station Road, Smeeth, near Ashford, is a Grade II* listed property on a 3. ...
However, it does appear in the 1086 Domesday Book. Today, Ripley is home to around 20,000 people and boasts many independently run stores, pretty walking paths, and a railway museum.
Going back further in time, it's believed the village Chaddesley Corbett, which was recorded as Cedeslai in the Domesday Book of 1086AD, was given to a Corbett family following the Norman conquest.
It was recognised in the Domesday Book in 1086, but was largely agricultural and had two small, main hamlets called Speke and Oglet. Most of the town was built from the 1930s onwards.
In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring power of the Virgin of Fatima. By Robert P. Baird Robert P. Baird ...
Stonnall dates so far back in history that it was even mentioned in the Domesday Book which was completed in the year 1086. The book tells of a mill in the village, suggesting it had an arable ...
The same is true of Seacroft situated around four miles east of Leeds city centre. It is listed in the Domesday Book and the name (originally Saecroft) is of Saxon origin – sae meaning pool or ...
In the 1860s, the first facsimile of Domesday Book was created by the new process of photozincography, under the directorship of Henry James, at the Southampton Offices of the Ordnance Survey.
Residents of a Domesday Book village have claimed a plan to build a housing estate across open grassland which they have been allowed to use to graze animals and for recreation represents “an ...
Residents of a Domesday Book village have claimed a plan to build a housing estate across open grassland which they have been allowed to use to graze animals and for recreation represents “an ...