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Charmouth
Charmouth is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England. The village is situated on the mouth of the River Char, around north-east of Lyme Regis. Dorset County Council estimated that in 2013 the population of the civil parish was 1,310. In the 2011 Census the population of the parish, combined with the small parish of Catherston Leweston to the north, was 1,352. History The history of Charmouth dates back to the Iron Age when a Celtic tribe, the Durotriges, founded a settlement. Evidence of hill forts can still be seen in the area. The name Charmouth originated from the Saxon 'Cerne' meaning stony river, Charmouth was therefore known as 'Cernmunde'. Historian George Roberts wrote: During the Saxon period, the neighbouring coast was particularly subject to the invasions of the Danes, concerning whom so much has been written. In 787, the Danes, Northern men, or Normans, landed at Portland from three ships, to reconnoitre the country, which they did without interrupti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a town in west Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the English Channel at the Dorset–Devon border. It has noted fossils in cliffs and beaches on the Heritage or Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall, known as The Cobb, appears in Jane Austen's novel ''Persuasion'', the John Fowles novel ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' and the 1981 film of that name, partly shot in the town. A former mayor and MP was Admiral Sir George Somers, who founded the English colonial settlement of Somers Isles, now Bermuda, where Lyme Regis is twinned with St George's. In July 2015, Lyme Regis joined Jamestown, Virginia in a Historic Atlantic Triangle with St George's. The 2011 Census gave the urban area a population of 4,712, estimated at 4,805 in 2019. History In Saxon times, the abbots of Sherborne Abbey had salt-boiling rights on land adjacent to the River Lym, and the abbey once owned par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Char
The River Char is a river in Dorset. The Char runs a few miles from Bettiscombe to Charmouth, passing Pilsdon Pilsdon is a hamlet and civil parish in the Dorset unitary authority area of Dorset, England. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 50. The Grade II* Pilsdon Manor House dates from the start of the 17th ... and Whitchurch Canonicorum. Rivers of Dorset {{Dorset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitchurch Canonicorum Hundred
Whitchurch Canonicorum Hundred or Whitechurch Canonicorum Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes: * Burstock * Catherston Leweston *Charmouth * Chideock *Lyme Regis *Marshwood * Pilsdon * Stanton St Gabriel * Stockland (part) (i.e., Dalwood, transferred to Devon 1844) *Symondsbury *Whitchurch Canonicorum * Wootton Fitzpaine See also *List of hundreds in Dorset This is a list of hundreds in the county of Dorset, England. Between the Anglo-Saxon period and the Local Government Act (1888), the county of Dorset was divided into hundreds and boroughs (and from the mediaeval period, liberties as well). Th ... Sources *Boswell, Edward, 1833: ''The Civil Division of the County of Dorset'' (published on CD by Archive CD Books Ltd, 1992) * Hutchins, John, ''History of Dorset'', vols 1-4 (3rd ed 1861–70; reprinted by EP Publishing, Wakefield, 1973) *Mills, A. D., 1977, 1980, 1989: ''Place Names of Dorset'', parts 1–3. English Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorset
Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dorset. Covering an area of , Dorset borders Devon to the west, Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north-east, and Hampshire to the east. The county town is Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester, in the south. After the Local Government Act 1972, reorganisation of local government in 1974, the county border was extended eastward to incorporate the Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch. Around half of the population lives in the South East Dorset conurbation, while the rest of the county is largely rural with a low population density. The county has a long history of human settlement stretching back to the Neolithic era. The Roman conquest of Britain, Romans conquered Dorset's indigenous Durotriges, Celtic tribe, and during the Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Roberts (antiquary)
George Roberts (died 1860) was an English schoolmaster and antiquary. Life Roberts was born at Lyme Regis in Dorset, where he was mainly educated. He then kept a grammar school there in Broad Street, Henry Parry Liddon being one of his pupils. Roberts acted as mayor of Lyme Regis in 1848–9 and 1854–5. From a young age he devoted himself to the history of the place and studied its archives. He became known for his knowledge of local history. Roberts corresponded with Sir Walter Scott, and Thomas Babington Macaulay quoted him as an authority on Monmouth's Rebellion. Hepworth Dixon, in his ''Life of Admiral Blake'', acknowledged obligations to Roberts. Around 1857 he moved to Dover, where he died on 27 May 1860, aged 57. Works Roberts published: * ''The History of Lyme Regis'', 1823. * ''A Guide descriptive of the Beauties of Lyme Regis, with a Description of the Great Storm'' f 23 Nov.''1824'', already published in the ''Sherborne Mercury'', and issued separately (1830). * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Æthelwulf Of Wessex
C3, C-3, C.3, C03, C.III or C-III may refer to: Life and biology * C3 carbon fixation in plants * C3-convertase, an enzyme * Complement component 3, a protein of the innate immune system * Apolipoprotein C3, a human very low density lipoprotein * ATC code C03 ''Diuretics'', a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System * Castavinol C3, a natural phenolic compound found in red wines * Cytochrome-c3 hydrogenase, an enzyme * Haplogroup C-M217, called C3 in older publications * In human anatomy, C3 may refer to: ** Cervical vertebra 3, one of the cervical vertebrae of the vertebral column ** Cervical spinal nerve 3 * Clinical Cell Culture, a medical technology company * C03, Malignant neoplasm of gum ICD-10 code * C3 Collaborating for Health, a health-promotion NGO * C3: an EEG electrode site according to the 10-20 system Military * C3, Command, control, and communications, a military concept * C-3 (plastic explosive), a plastic explosive related to C4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Of Westminster
Matthew of Westminster, long regarded as the author of the ''Flores Historiarum'', is now thought never to have existed. The error was first discovered in 1826 by Francis Turner Palgrave, who said that Matthew was "a phantom who never existed," and later the truth of this statement was completely proved by Henry Richards Luard. The name appears to have been taken from that of Matthew Paris, from whose ''Chronica majora'' the earlier part of the work was mainly copied, and from Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United ..., where the work was partially written. He is sometimes surnamed Florilegus (literally "flower-gatherer"), in reference to the title of his supposed work. References ;Attribution {{Authority control Medieval English writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herefrith
__NOTOC__ Herefrith was a medieval Bishop of Winchester. He was consecrated before 825. He died in 836. However, he never appears on charters except with Wigthegn __NOTOC__ Wigthegn was a medieval Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Winchester is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Winchester in the Church of England. The bishop's seat (''cathedra'') is at Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire. The Bishop ....Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 223 Citations References * External links * Bishops of Winchester 836 deaths 9th-century English bishops Year of birth unknown {{England-bishop-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winchester
Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs National Park, on the River Itchen, Hampshire, River Itchen. It is south-west of London and from Southampton, its nearest city. At the 2011 census, Winchester had a population of 45,184. The wider City of Winchester district, which includes towns such as New Alresford, Alresford and Bishop's Waltham, has a population of 116,595. Winchester is the county town of Hampshire and contains the head offices of Hampshire County Council. Winchester developed from the Roman Britain, Roman town of Venta Belgarum, which in turn developed from an Iron Age oppidum. Winchester was one of the most important cities in England until the Norman conquest of England, Norman conquest in the eleventh century. It has since become one of the most expensive and afflue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorset County Council
Dorset County Council (DCC) was the county council for the county of Dorset in England. It provided the upper tier of local government, below which were district councils, and town and parish councils. The county council had 46 elected councillors and was based at County Hall in Dorchester. The council was abolished on 31 March 2019 as part of structural changes to local government in Dorset. Responsibilities for services Dorset County Council's responsibilities included schools, social care for the elderly and vulnerable, road maintenance, libraries and trading standards. The county council's area was also administered by six smaller authorities that have their own district or borough councils. The responsibilities of these councils included local planning, council housing, refuse collection, sports and leisure facilities, and street cleaning. The district areas are further divided into civil parishes, which have " parish councils" or "town councils"; the latter of which o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by the Latin name ''Liber de Wintonia'', meaning "Book of Winchester", where it was originally kept in the royal treasury. The '' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' states that in 1085 the king sent his agents to survey every shire in England, to list his holdings and dues owed to him. Written in Medieval Latin, it was highly abbreviated and included some vernacular native terms without Latin equivalents. The survey's main purpose was to record the annual value of every piece of landed property to its lord, and the resources in land, manpower, and livestock from which the value derived. The name "Domesday Book" came into use in the 12th century. Richard FitzNeal wrote in the ''Dialogus de Scaccario'' ( 1179) that the book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ploughland
The carucate or carrucate ( lat-med, carrūcāta or ) was a medieval unit of land area approximating the land a plough team of eight oxen could till in a single annual season. It was known by different regional names and fell under different forms of tax assessment. England The carucate was named for the carruca heavy plough that began to appear in England in the late 9th century, it may have been introduced during the Viking invasions of England.White Jr., Lynn, The Life of the Silent Majority, pg. 88 of Life and Thought in the Early Middle Ages, ed. Robert S. Hoyt, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. 1967 It was also known as a ploughland or plough ( ang, plōgesland, "plough's land") in the Danelaw and usually, but not always, excluded the land's suitability for winter vegetables and desirability to remain fallow in crop rotation. The tax levied on each carucate came to be known as " carucage". Though a carucate might nominally be regarded as an area of 120 acres (49 hec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
