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A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which … incipient urban or port development, but between 1086 and 1327 Wivenhoe apparently remained comparatively small and …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Manors and other estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES The manor of WIVENHOE was an estate of 5 hides less 15 a. held in 1066 by Alvric and in 1086 by Nigel as a tenant of Robert Gernon. 92 After …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… to a priory of Benedictine nuns founded temp. Henry I and dissolved in 1525. Parts of the W. wall may be of the … a blocked 14th-century doorway with moulded jambs and two-centred arch. The mid 13th-century N. arcade is of … orders; the octagonal columns have moulded capitals and chamfered bases and the responds have attached …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… 4 m. N. of Bromyard. The church, with 12th-century work and an effigy, is the principal monument. Ecclesiastical (1). … of the parish. The walls are of local sandstone rubble and ashlar with some calcareous tufa and sandstone dressings; the roofs are tiled and the turret …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… WOMBOURN ( St. Benedict), a parish, in the union, and S. division of the hundred, of Seisdon, S. division of … Wolverhampton; containing, with the liberties of Orton and Swindon, 1808 inhabitants, of whom 1220 are in the … passes through the parish. In the village is a mill for dressing leather, which affords employment to forty persons. …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… parish. No vicarage was endowed before the Dissolution, and afterwards the benefice (if there was one) seems to have been simply a donative and outside the bishop's ordinary jurisdiction. 50 It was … until the earlier 17th century. Probably between 1621 and 1642 patronage was acquired by the Charltons with the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… of Wombridge 1808-56, resisted the nonconformists 25 and, save for the Wesleyan chapel at Ketley Bank, no … established in his parish during his time. In the 1840s and 1850s, however, Primitive Methodist, Congregational, and New Connexion Methodist chapels opened on the southern …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… Ancient and historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Wooburn 99. … 12th-century date; c. 1360 the North Chapel was added, and the Chancel was probably re-built at the same time. The West Tower was built in 1442. The North and South Aisles were re-built in the 19th century, and the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to be processed to concentrate the content of potassium and to turn the raw product into POTASHES and PEARL ASH. It was less useful in its crude form, as one … cloth in order to encourage processes like dyeing and dressing at home. OED earliest date of use: 1483 Found …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… N.E. (b)XIII S.E. (c)XIV N.W.). Wood Walton is a parish and village, 6 m. N.N.W. of Huntingdon. The church and Castle Hill are the principal monuments. Ecclesiastical … c. 1330. Early in the 16th century the N. arcade was built and the clearstorey added. The church was drastically …