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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Andrew) WIVELISCOMBE ( St. Andrew), a market-town and parish, in the union of Wellington, W. division of the … of thread-lace formerly constituted a principal branch of business, but of late it has been entirely … occupation for the children of the poor. The Bedford branch of the London and Birmingham railway passes on the …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the … men to remove dead timber from his estate. 14 A Wivenhoe branch of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Iron and Steel Ship- builders was formed in 1890, and a branch of the Ship Constructors' and Shipwrights' Associ- …
A History of the County of Essex
… a small town. Wivenhoe became an urban district in 1898, and remained so until 1974 when it became part of the new … Alresford runs from west to east across the parish, with a branch running south- east towards Brightlingsea from which a … Co-operative Society in the early 20th century. 78 A branch of Essex County library was opened in 1965 on the site …
A History of the County of Essex
… warren in their demesne lands in Wivenhoe. 39 In the 14th and 15th centuries courts with view of frankpledge were held … on the lord's land, breach of the assize of ale, and of infringing the lord's rights of avesage, pannage, and larder were heard; admissions to and surrenders of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … railway, past Wolsingham, to Frosterley, and has a branch to Bishopley Crag; the total length being 11 miles. … furnishing ironmongery and cabinet brasses, with every branch of the iron manufacture; and brass, tin, Pont-y-Pool, …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… paid for it to the Dane-geld after the rate of a carucat and an half. The Land was then for twelve oxen, or twelve … be observed, and in some other places of this Book. That branch of Bingham bore for their Arms, three Waterbougets … intermarried with Sir Percival Willoughby, of another branch of this Family. By this Union Sir Percival became …
A History of the County of Oxford
… abbey consolidated much of its demesne land in Wolvercote and St. Giles's parish into a single block of land straddling … the process: in return for land at Ailmerswell, Horestone, and Hawsland ditch in the north end of St. Giles's, Godstow … MS. Top. Oxon. c. 334, ff. 51-3. V.C.H. Oxon. i. 416; Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii. 857. St. John's Coll. Mun., XI. 9, 6. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… closed shortly afterwards for lack of financial support, and in 1815 the three day schools taught only 46 children. 77 … 1817, however, a National school, held in the glebe house and supported by subscriptions, including £2 2 s. from Merton … school in 1874. In 1973 the income of the educational branch of the charity, £3.92, was used for rewards and prizes …
A History of the County of Oxford
… an ancient parish lying on the north-west of the city and liberty of Oxford, c. 2 ½ miles north of the city centre, … through the parish in 1788, and the following year a short branch, Duke's Cut, was made for the duke of Marlborough, … (E.P.N.S.), i. 33-4. Godstow Eng. Reg. ii, p. 459. Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii. 857; Godstow Eng. Reg. ii, pp. 577-9. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 1279 Godstow abbey had view of frankpledge in Wolvercote, and the royal bailiff had entry into the manor only by the king's writ. The abbey also had rights of toll, pleas and perquisites of court, infangthief and outfangthief, … 1929; the committee was still functioning in 1985. 4 Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii. 857. Royal Letters to Oxf. ed. O. …