. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE the nearest station being Henlow on the Great Northern Ramsey, the gift being confirmed by Edward the Railway main line. Several small streams rising in the hills on the Hertfordshire border run north-east through the parish, flowing through Campton and Sheflbrd to join the Ivel. Confessor and William I.* At the time of the Domesday Survey the manor, held by the abbot of Ramsey, was assessed at lo hides, and worth ;^; The abbot continued to. Shillincton Church from South-east The five chief haml
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE the nearest station being Henlow on the Great Northern Ramsey, the gift being confirmed by Edward the Railway main line. Several small streams rising in the hills on the Hertfordshire border run north-east through the parish, flowing through Campton and Sheflbrd to join the Ivel. Confessor and William I.* At the time of the Domesday Survey the manor, held by the abbot of Ramsey, was assessed at lo hides, and worth ;^; The abbot continued to. Shillincton Church from South-east The five chief hamlets of the parish are Lower Stondon in the north-east, Pegsdon on high ground three miles south from the village on the hills which form the Hertfordshire border, Aspley—with Aspley Bury manor—one mile to the south, Little Holwell, three miles east, and Woodmer End and Bury End close to the village on the north. Miscellaneous Roman re- mains have been found at Shillington.' The parish was inclosed by Act of Parliament in 1802.' Among place-names may be mentioned the fol- lowing : Brade Fen and Maundeacres, occurring in the thirteenth century ;' Essyngwell, found from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century ; Bury Lotts, Plashe Brade, Church Pannell,' Chesill, Abbots Hedge, Colvers Croft, Milfield, the Pounds, and Aldwicic Marsh, which are all found from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century.° The origin of the manor of SHIL- MJNORS LINGTON is to be sought in the land which formerly belonged to Ailwin, an alderman of Edgar, and which was purchased between 1016 and 1034 by .(Ethelric bishop of Dorchester.' This land, then estimated at 3 carucates, the bishop subsequently bestowed upon the abbot of hold this manor as of his barony of Broughton, and received various grants in Shillington during the thirteenth century. Thus Ralph de Tyville, who in 1230 had recovered half a carucate of land there from Hugh Grandim,'" in 1265 granted it to the abbey," and about the
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