WITHAM
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V28,
Page 758
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
WITHAM
, an See also:urban See also:district in the See also:Maldon See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Essex, See also:England, 39 M
.
N.E. by E. from See also:London by the See also:Great Eastern See also:rail-way
.
Pop
.
(1901) 3454• It lies on the See also:River See also:Brain, an affluent of the See also:Blackwater, also known as the Guith, a See also:form connected with the name Witham
.
The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Nicholas is principally Decorated, but retains earlier portions
.
See also:Roman bricks appear in its fabric, and premise a Roman station in the vicinity
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Surrounding the church (which stands in a high-lying portion of the See also:town known as Chipping See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill) there are earthworks, possibly the remains of a fortification recorded as made by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:Edward the See also:Elder in 913, but perhaps of See also:British origin
.
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