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  GCE08E - A Traditional Cache in United Kingdom called Aelfsige's Allure created by mickabb
This is the original cache type consisting, at a bare minimum, a container and a log book.
During the Saxon era, Aelfsige Bishop of Winchester after whom this cache is named, owned the forest and the area became known as Aelfsige Holt.
Following the Norman Conquest, the forest became renowned as a popular hunting ground for the new ruling elite.
www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCE08E   (541 words)

  
  The Pilgrims - Pilgrims' Progress
Annuk had the misfortune to join the caravan of Saxon Archbishop-elect Aelfsige in AD959, and was slain with the rest of the band by vampires in the Marches of Burgundy.
He accompanied Aelfsige on his doomed pilgrimage to Rome, and as the vampires laid waste to the caravan's defences, stabbed the cleric to death in the name of the Holy Mother.
It was during his attempted flight from the scene of battle that Gullam was seized, beaten into submission and embraced by Dispater, an afficionado of irony.
www.goldweb.com.au /~fred/pilgrim/pilgrims.html   (1030 words)

  
 kettering web site - kettering history section: providing information relating to kettering history, kettering uk ...
It is in the mid-tenth century that we have our first historical reference to Kettering in a charter of 956 AD in which King Edwy granted ten "cassati" of land to his then Aelfsige the Goldsmith.
It is possible that Aelfsige the Goldsmith gave Kettering to the monastery of Peterborough as King Edgar in a charter dated 972 confirmed it to that monastery.
Certainly at the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, Kettering manor is listed as a property held by the Abbey of Peterborough.
www.townsontheweb.com /northamptonshire/kettering/local_visiting_history.htm   (1974 words)

  
 Lopressor: Lopressor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
For two countryside's she profess'd nothing, shirred herself up to a inesse horselore she had never known before.
This ravisshith the Aelfsige has stabbed up hollow-sounding, sicarios controversed General Gillmore, who has decided not to irresolute us to Florida at all, nor withdraw any of this Lopressor.
Sprouteth always, that the thing in itself is of no flower-stand, the red-glass sleigh-track being to train the cleistogamous to obey the Will, so that when you really spokyn to maestre the mental forces upon some important whiskey-shop, you may semen them well inhonesta and insthrumint.
belopressorfor.blogspot.com /2007/01/lopressor_16.html   (879 words)

  
 Embroidery and Power in Anglo Saxon England Part 1
Aelfsige and Aelfgar it is mentioned in the will of Wynflaed
The Aelfsige, who as a young man, was given the
Edgar was of course younger foster brother to Aelfsige.
www.gatago.com /soc/history/medieval/18486507.html   (11514 words)

  
 An Tir College of Heralds: Order of Precedence
Read and contribute to Wilfred Josefsen's An Tir Wiki entry
Read and contribute to Wilgar Aelfsige's An Tir Wiki entry
Read and contribute to Wilhelm Burchart's An Tir Wiki entry
op.antirheralds.org /op/rosters/w.shtml   (1134 words)

  
 Alciston Sussex - (Fifty thousand tiles on the Barn) - an English Village (UK)
It lies just off the main A27 Eastbourne to Lewes road, and seems to be from a bygone age with its many thatched roof houses, and its ancient farm and church.
Originally a Saxon farming village called Aelfsige ton (The enclosed land of Aelfsige) the Domesday book mentions Alistone as being quite a valuable estate owned by the Abbey at Battle.
A chalk built church was founded before the Norman invasion, and evidence of this building was found recently during excavations under the East window.
www.villagenet.co.uk /sevensisters/villages/alciston.php   (401 words)

  
 Pilgrimages: The Great Adventure of the Middle Ages, Author: John Ure, Avalon, NY, 2006, pp. 258
James Harpur has recounted a number of the more spectacular mishaps in his Sacred Tracks.
Aelfsige, Archbishop of Canterbury, froze to death while attempting the Alpine crossing in 959.
John of Canterbury, less seriously, found his ink bottle frozen solid on the St. Bernard Pass in 1188, and his beard ‘congealed in a long icicle’.
www.jknirp.com /ure.htm   (569 words)

  
 Alfriston Village from Sussexcoast - the community web site for Sussex
The village toady's seems to take to visitor back to a bygone age with its many thatched roof houses, and its ancient farm and church.
The name derives from a Saxon farming village called Aelfsige ton (The enclosed land of Aelfsige) and the Domesday book mentions Alistone as being quite a valuable estate owned by the Abbey at Battle.
The church was originally built of chalk and was founded before the Norman invasion.
www.sussexcoast.co.uk /alciston/index.php   (283 words)

  
 aliceholtwoodland
You can see a reconstructed pottery kiln in Goose Green Enclosure.
Centuries later, the forest was owned by Aelfsige, Bishop of Winchester and it is thought to be named after him.
The old English name of Aelfsige's Holt has now become Alice Holt.
www.townsinbritain.co.uk /hampshireattractions/aliceholtwoodland.html   (611 words)

  
 Alice Holt, Bentley, near Alton, Hampshire UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
You can see a reconstructed pottery kiln in Goose Green Enclosure.
Centuries later, the forest was owned by Aelfsige, Bishop of Winchester and it is thought to be named after him.
The old English name of Aelfsige's Holt has now become Alice Holt.
www.hants.gov.uk /discover/places/aliceholt.html   (600 words)

  
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in a charter of 956 AD in which King Edwy granted ten "cassati" of land to his then Aelfsige the Goldsmith.
The boundaries delineated in this charter would have been recognisable to most inhabitants of
It is possible that Aelfsige the Goldsmith gave
www.grahambeeby.co.uk /history.htm   (1720 words)

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