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The book comprises the history of a major part of the Essex coastline in Tendring Hundred before the development of seaside resorts from the mid 19th century onwards (the resorts were covered in VCH Essex Volume XI, to which this is the second part of a companion volume).

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 houses recall its past prosperity. Bishop's Cleeve had a monastery in the 8th century and later became a demesne manor of the Bishop of Worcester. There was an early minster church at Beckford, and at Deerhurst a Saxon monastery with a remarkable church that is still in use. At Forthampton part of the Abbot of Tewkesbury's manor-house survives. There were also substantial lay estates, not only the great manor of Tewkesbury, long owned by the Earls of Gloucester, but also those of lesser baronial families, like the Beauchamps, Pauncefoots, and Cardiffs. The land, once densely wooded, has mostly long been agricultural,though in Corse and Tirley parts of the former chase were not inclosed until 1797, and there were large sheep-pastures in the hills. Prestbury was becoming residential by the late 18th century and later on engineering works stimulated the growth of other places in the area.

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.

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Contains chapters on Natural History, Early Man and Anglo-Saxon Remains. This book also presents an introduction to the Cambridgeshire Domesday, a translation of the "Text of Cambridgeshire Domesday" and a translation of the "Inquisitio Comitatus Cantabrigiensis".

This volume was published in 1963 and edited by J.G. Jenkins. It covers the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme and the city of Stoke-on-Trent.

An important contribution to the social, cultural and economic history of seaside resorts and their hinterland in Essex.

Contains chapters on Natural History, Early Man, Ancient Earthworks, Anglo-Saxon Remains and Domesday for the whole of Essex, including an introduction to the Essex Domesday.

The final volume in the original Victoria County History of Hampshire looks not only at the great city of Winchester and other places of interest but also the history of the county in general from a number of viewpoints.

A collection of all available Staffordshire volumes in the Victoria County History series.

For Middlesex read London: the ancient county was only absorbed into Greater London (north of the river) in the last century.

Contains the history of the 30 parishes that formed the wapentake of Dickering. The area lies largely upon the chalk hills of the Yorkshire Wolds, which here meet the sea in the cliffs around Flamborough Head, but the wapentake also extended into the Vale of Pickering. This volume describes a variety of landscape and agricultural history.