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A History of the County of Gloucester
… stream, on which several cloth-mills were built, and the southern boundary is formed by the Inch brook and ornamental ponds built on the brook by the late 18th … to a height of over 750 ft. at Bown hill. The Nailsworth and Inchbrook valleys are formed by deposits of Upper Lias …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 … to William Leigh, who made Woodchester a centre of Roman Catholicism. Leigh died in 1873 and was succeeded by his son …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM. The revival of Roman … fathers to Northfield House, Nailsworth, in 1846, and they moved to Pud hill in 1849. The church, comprising chancel with founder's chapel and north vestry block, north tower with spire, and aisled …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's … Newmarket was separated from its parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as a … the town; 11 by the 18th century it levied its own rates and was treated as a separate cure even when held by the same …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The ancient parish of Woodford lies between Salisbury and Amesbury, on the western side of the River Avon. The … is bounded on the east by the winding course of the river and on the west by the old turnpike road from Salisbury to … extending a little over 3 miles from north to south, and from east to west about 2 miles in the north and 1 mile …
A History of the County of Essex
… Woodford Education and charities EDUCATION. In 1796 there was a Sunday school at … where most of the children of the poor were taught and clothed charitably. 1 By 1807, if not before, the only … schools of industry were founded, one attended by 20 boys and the other by 20 girls, and both supported by voluntary …
A History of the County of Essex
… does not seem to have been appropriated, even temporarily, and its incumbent has always been styled a rector. But part … composition was made in 1224 between the abbot of Waltham and the rector of Woodford to settle certain divisions of … the church itself is in Hermon Hill, Wanstead. 75 ROMAN CATHOLICISM. The Roman Catholic parish of Woodford was formed …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… acres. Here is a mineral spring, with baths, an hotel, and other accommodations for visiters. The water resembles … 1; bicarbonate of soda, 6; iodine, 0. 55; bromine, 8. 35; and of potash, a trace: its specific gravity is 1016. The … valued in the king's books at 13; net income, 70; patron and appropriator, the Bishop of Lincoln. The tithes were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… marking out of a site, probably confined on the north and east by the road, later Oxford Street, to the Old … called Hensgrove, acquired by the king from the Templars and taken into the park, perhaps when the town was founded. … have been laid out only when New Woodstock was planned, and on its south side is the church, where a 12th-century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an early free grammar school, two small charity schools, and by the early 19th century several dame schools; it was a … for a National school, observed in 1815 that 'a religious and useful education is not neglected' and in 1831 that 'scarcely any residents lacked the means of …