It is primarily a residential area, and it is a Royal manor of historical significance.

By 1086 Hitchin is described as a Royal Manor in the Domesday Book: the feudal services of Avera and Inward, usually found in the eastern counties, especially Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, were due from the sokemen, but the manor of Hitchin was unique in levying Inward.

Granted a Royal Charter in 1414, the manor spanned a broad rural area consisting of marshland, moorland, and a number of villages and hamlets.

Upon the death of Edwin in 1071, the manor and the rest of Mercia passed into the possession of the Crown, then ruled by William the Conqueror, resulting in Sutton Chase becoming a Royal Forest.

Christ Church Priory was finally dissolved in 1539 and the manor of Monks Risborough was put up for sale by the Royal Commissioners in 1541.

Following the dissolution of the Monasteries it was held by the Crown, and the whole of the manor was used as pasture for the cattle of the Royal Household.

The affix ' Royal ' was given to the village in the late 11th century by the king, who gave the lord of the manor of Farnham Bertram de Verdun the Grand Serjeanty, on the condition of providing a glove and putting it on the king's right hand at the coronation, and supporting his right arm, while the Royal sceptre was in his hand ( see also Manor of Worksop ).

It was granted a Royal Charter in 1202, when King John sold most of the royal manor of Cheddar to the Bishop of Bath and Wells.

Following the Norman conquest of England, Chadderton was made a constituent manor of the wider Royal Estate of Tottington, an extensive fee held by the Norman overlord, Roger de Montbegon.

In 1311, the Royal manor of Eltham was established and this included the woods.

Named in the Little Domesday Book, as a Royal demesne ( manor ) of 194 households, the village boasts the site of one of King John's hunting lodges, sited within the grounds of the present HE institution Writtle College ( circa 1210 ).

However, the mill burned down in 1926, and wasn't rebuilt, and on the death of Emily Morrell in 1938 the estate was sold, and the manor house as well as other houses in the village became part of the Royal Veterinary College, which had moved out of London during the Blitz.

Ash was once part of the Royal manor of Wingham and having been given to the See of Canterbury in 850 AD by King Athelstan, it became a separate parish in 1282, one of the largest in Kent.

The revenues of the manor were later forfeited by Robert de Bellême, Earl Roger ’ s heir, and passed into Royal hands once more under King Henry I.

The Royal manor switched in and out of Crown Tenure until, in 1586, Queen Elizabeth I finally made a charter grant of the Condover manor lands to Chief Justice Thomas Owen, a Member of Parliament and Recorder of Shrewsbury.

The New Forest Verderers still hold their courts at the Verderers ’ Hall in Lyndhurst, Hampshire built around the manor house of the Royal Manor of Lyndhurst in 1388 now known as Queen ’ s House.

The royal manor also gave the surrounding area the designation of the Royal Liberty of Havering, which gave those living in the area freedom from taxation and other benefits.

In the medieval period Easton lay within the Royal Forest of Kingswood in the manor of Barton Regis.

The medieval manor house, however, became a popular Royal hunting lodge, at a time when the castle was a fortress rather than a comfortable residence.

Originally Easthampstead was an important parish in Windsor Forest, its manor house at Easthampstead Park being a popular hunting lodge with the Royal Family.

* The manor of Kinver and Stourton was held by the service of keeping the Royal Forest of Kinver

This trackway came from Redhill passing in front of the Royal Earlswood Hospital through Whitebushes and crossing the stream / river ' Sal ' at Dean Farm, Salfords, running in front of the former Monotype Corporation site towards, in Horley, the Horley gasometer passing the moated ruined Thunderfield Castle on ' Harolds Lea ', a 13th century manor, reaching the south coast near Brighton.

* Jorge Luis Borges Lecture on R. B. Cunninghame Graham for the Anglo Argentinian Society, 30 September 1986, Alicia Jurado, Royal Society of Arts, London: n. p., 1986

The park was established as a Royal Forest by the Anglo Saxon kings of Mercia, from their seat at Tamworth at around the 9th century.

Shell Oil Company is the United States-based subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil company (" oil major ") of Anglo Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world.

* 1995-RBC sold Royal Trust Bank ( Austria ) to Anglo Irish Bank, which renamed it Anglo Irish Bank ( Austria ).

* 1995 – Anglo Irish acquired Royal Trust Bank ( Austria ), a bank with a 100 year history, from Royal Bank of Canada and renamed it Anglo Irish Bank ( Austria ).

However, a decision of the Anglo French Supreme War Council on 28 March 1940 to commence Operation Royal Marine on 4 April was vetoed shortly afterwards by the French Government, leaving Operation Wilfred to take place on its own.

The owners were a group of large European companies-the Deutsche Bank, the Anglo Saxon Oil Company ( a subsidiary of Royal Dutch / Shell ), the National Bank of Turkey ( a British concern )-and Turkish-born Armenian businessman Calouste Gulbenkian.

The train station has two grand entrance halls, the eastern one for the Royal Saxon State Railways and and the western one for the Prussian state railways.

In mid-1840, a large fleet of war ships appeared on the China coast and with the first cannon fire aimed at a British ship, the Royal Saxon, the British started the first of the Opium Wars.

Isabella is descended from Gytha of Wessex through King Andrew II of Hungary and thus brought the bloodline of the last Saxon King of England, Harold Godwinson, back into the English Royal family.

At the same time, the head of the Saxon Royal House was established as heir to the Polish throne ( Article VII of the Polish Constitution ).

Category: Saxon Royal Warrant holders

In view of his name, he possibly was a descendant of the Saxon leader and national hero Widukind, mentioned in the Royal Frankish Annals, who had battled Charlemagne in the Saxon Wars from 777 to 785.

The place has been fortified since at least Saxon times, when it was an important fortified borough of Wessex with the right to mint Royal coinage.

A massive army of between 5000 and 10, 000 men with their women, children and horses came up the now long-lost Limen estuary ( the east-west route of the Royal Military Canal in reclaimed Romney Marsh ) and attacked a Saxon fort near lonely St Rumwold's church, Bonnington, killing all inside.

In 1855 he was appointed director of the royal collections of antiquities and the museum of plaster casts at Dresden, to which posts were subsequently added that of director of the historical museum and a professorship at the Royal Saxon Polytechnic.

The Royal Forest was probably similar in area to the Saxon Hundred of North Petherton.

Melton Mowbray itself had six recorded crosses the construction of which spanned several centuries: ( i ) Kettleby Cross, ( close to the present Total filling station near the junction of Dalby Road to the Leicester Road ), ( ii ) Sheep Cross, on what was Spital End, ( now Nottingham Street / Park Road Junction, ( iii ) Corn Cross at the Swine Lane / Spittle End junction, ( reconstructed and reinstated on the Nottingham St / High St junction in 1996 as a memorial to the Royal Army Veterinary Corps ), ( iv ) Butter Cross or High Cross, at the west end of Beast Market ,( again reconstructed from partial remains of the original Saxon cross in 1986 / 7 in the Market Place ), ( v ) Sage Cross, at the East end of the Beast Market close to Salt gate ,( on Sherrard Street opposite Sage Cross Street ), and ( vi ) Thorpe Cross at the end of Saltgate ( near the junction of Thorps Road and Saxby Road ).

The Saxon Shore Way which starts at Gravesend, Kent and traces the coast as it was in Roman times, passes through Rye en route to Hastings ; the 1066 Country Walk leads from Rye to Pevensey ; the High Weald Landscape Trail goes to Horsham ; and the Royal Military Canal Path follows that waterway to Hythe.

By the end of the Saxon period, Wareham had become one of the most important towns in the county, to the extent that it housed two mints for the issue of Royal money.

Some of the larger and more important excavations have included the Roman amphitheatre at Guildhall Yard, a complex Roman and medieval sequence at No 1 Poultry near Bank Station, excavations within the Middle Saxon settlement at Covent Garden during the expansion of the Royal Opera House, excavations along the route of the Jubilee Line Extension in Southwark and Westminster, and the recovery of over 15, 000 human skeletons during excavation of the Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital in Spitalfields.

He was part of the Royal Saxon Geheimer Hofrat and a member of the Royal Saxon Academy.

Frederick Augustus served in the Royal Saxon Army before becoming king, and later was promoted to Generalfeldmarschall.

Frederick Augustus entered the Royal Saxon Army in 1877 as a second lieutenant, despite being only twelve years old.

He served initially with the Royal Saxon 1.

On 20 September 1894, the 29-year old prince was promoted to Generalmajor and given command of the 1st Royal Saxon Infantry Brigade Nr.

On 22 May 1898, he was promoted to Generalleutnant and given command of the 1st Royal Saxon Infantry Division Nr.