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A History of the County of Stafford
… Education There was a day school attended by 13 boys and 9 girls in 1833; it also met on Sundays. 1 A National school was built in Berry Hedge Lane in 1846, and by 1871 it had an attendance of 56 boys and 50 girls. In 1874 it was vested by the vicar of Winshill …
A History of the County of Stafford
… middle-class houses were built along the Ashby road, and there has also been extensive 20thcentury council and private housing development in the south-eastern part of … township. Winshill was a township in Burton ancient parish and later a civil parish covering 1,150 a. (465.4 ha.). 15 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of the Presbyterian Thomas Ford, who lived in Winshill and apparently preached there as well as at a conventicle in … that year. 7 A chapel was built on waste ground in 1845, and on Census Sunday 1851 it had an afternoon congregation of … replaced by a chapel in High Bank Road, registered in 1879 and still in use in 1999, a porch having been added in 1973. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when Wisbech vill was divided between the Bishop of Ely and the prior and convent. That this separation had not taken place in … is rendered improbable by the line of this boundary and also by the fact that until the last century Wisbech St. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when it was entrusted in turn to Ralph de Normanville and Robert de Cantia, and to Richard (Poore), Bishop of Salisbury. 28 King John … last journey. 29 Edward I visited it in 1292, 1298, 1300, and 1305. 30 From the late 13th century the building was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… consideracion of all such as shalbe nedefull to attend and guard them'. 47 Eight years later the deprived … Papists were ordered to be sent to castles such as Wisbech and Banbury; the laymen were to be placed under guard in … Bagshaw, a comparatively recent (1582) convert to Roman Catholicism. Weston began to be active about 1593, he and his …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM From 1840 Roman Catholics … 79 A church, in Queen's Road, dedicated to St. Mary and St. Charles Borromeo, was built in 1854. 80 Gardner, Dir. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a parish, in the hundred of South Witchford, union and Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, 5 miles (W.) from Ely, … the king's books at 8. 11. 0.; net. income, 100; patrons and appropriators, the Chapter of Ely. There is a place of … Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, and Roman Catholics; also a national school supported partly by the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… taught some pupils, but by 1548 he did 'little service' and the growing town was recognized to be in need of a … the wealthy clothier Walter Jones left 10 for its 'repair and amending' so that 'children may there be taught', … use. 4 About 1571 the churchwardens glazed its windows, 5 and small bequests for its upkeep were made in the early 17th …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was described as a stone-built town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop …